THE THAMES;

OR,

GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

SEATS, VILLAS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND PICTURESQUE

SCENERY,

ON THE

Banks of that Moble River.

** Thames, the most loved of all the Ocean's Sons."

THE ENGRAVINGS EXECUTED BY

WILLIAM BERNARD COOKE,

FROM

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS

BY SAMUEL OWEN, ESQ.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

MINTED FOR VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE, S1, POULTRY; AND W. B.

COOKE, 12, YORK-PLACE, PENTONVILLE;
By William Bell and Co. at the Union Office, St. John's Square.

1911.

LIST OF PLATES TO VOL. I.

Source of the Thames.
Thames Head.
Cricklade.
Inglesham Lock, with the Thames and Severn Canal, and Lechlade

in the distance.
Radcot Weir.
Oxford, from Ifley.
Nuneham Courtney, the seat of Earl Harcourt.

Cottage and Bridge.
Abingdon.
Junction of the Thame and Isis.
The Grotto House at Basildon.
Basildon Park and Combe Lodge.
Purley Hall, seat of the late Anthony Storer, Esq.
Shiplake Lock and Paper-Mill, with Wargrave House, the seat of

Joseph Hill, Esq. Park Place (Henley), the seat of the Earl of Malmsbury. Henley. Fawley Court, the seat of Strickland Freeman, Esq. Culham Court, near Henley, the seat of the Hon. Frederick West. Medmenham Abbey. Temple House, the seat of Owen Williams, Esq. Harleyford House, the seat of Sir William Clayton. Bisham Abbey, seat of George Vansittart, Esq. Great Marlow. Cookham Church. Taplow House. Maidenhead Bridge. Monkey Island The Willows, seat of the late Townley Ward, Esq. Windsor.

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Windsor Castle.
Eton Bridge.
Old Houses near Eton Bridge.
Eton College.
Beaumont Lodge, Old Windsor, seat of Lord Ashbrooke.
Staines Bridge.
Oatlands, the seat of the Duke of York.
Walton Bridge.
Garrick's House, at Hampton.
Hampton Court.
Lady Sullivan's Villa, at Ditton.
Kingston.
Strawberry Hill, the seat of the Hon. Mrs. Damer.
Lady Howe's Villa, (Baroness Howe).
Twickenham.
Richmond Hill, from Twickenham.
Marble Hill Cottage, near Richmond, villa of Sir John Lubbock.