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• Aire River (England)
• Avon, River (Gloucestershire-Bristol, England)
• Avon, River (Leicestershire-Gloucestershire, England)
• Calder, River (West Yorkshire, England)
• Dee, River (Wales and England)
• Derwent River (Derbyshire, England)
• Dove, River (Derbyshire and Staffordshire, England)
• Eden River (Cumbria, England)
• Estuaries -- England
• Fleet, River (England)
• Great Ouse River (England)
• Hull, River (England)
• Humber, River (England)
• Medway, River (England)
• Ore, River (England)
• Parrett, River (England)
• Ribble, River (England)
• Severn River (Wales and England)
• Tees River (England)
• Test River (England)
• Thames River (England)
• Trent, River (Staffordshire-North Lincolnshire, England)
• Tweed River (Scotland and England)
• Tyne, River (England)
• Welland, River (England)
• Wey, River (Hampshire and Surrey, England)
• Witham, River (England)
• Wye, River (Wales and England)
• Rivers -- Regulation, etc -- Great Britain -- England

• The rivers & streams of England (A. and C. Black, 1909), by A. G. Bradley and Sutton Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spenser's English rivers. (Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1920), by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spenser's English rivers (Privately published, 1920), by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Rivers and Streams of England, by A. G. Bradley, illust. by Sutton Palmer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Avona, or, A transient view of the benefit of making rivers of this kingdom navigable occasioned by observing the scituation of the city of Salisbury upon the Avon, and the consequence of opening that river to that city : communicated by letter to a friend at London / by R.S. (London : Printed by T.R. & N.T. for John Courtney ..., 1675), by R. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat troller, or, The art of trolling with a description of all the utensils, instruments, tackling, and materials requisite thereto, with rules and directions how to use them : as also a brief account of most of the principal rivers in England / by a lover of the sport. (London : Printed by T. James for Tho. Helder ..., 1682), by Robert Nobbes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The rivers of Devon from source to sea; with some account of the towns and villages on their banks. (Seeley, 1893), by John Lloyd Warden Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anno quadragesimo quinto Georgii III Regis. Cap. CXVI, An act for enabling His Majesty to grant a certain creek, called Chelson Bay, otherwise Shilston Bay, in or near the parish of Plympton Saint Mary, in the county of Devon; and for vesting the same, for a valuable consideration, in the Right Honourable John Lord Boringdon, and his heirs. (10th July 1805.). (Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1805), by Great Britain, Andrew Strahan, Charles Eyre, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, and Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The angler's complete guide to the rivers and lakes of England (Whittaker & Co. ;, 1853), by Robert Blakey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Instructions for jury-men on the Commission of Sewers shewing, 1. what they are to surveigh and view, 2. what to enquire and present, 3. how, delivered in a charge to 3 several juries at a session of Sewers holden at Spalding in the county of Lincoln : to which is added two other charges, the one concerning Lovell's works the other touching the river of Glean in the said county. (London : Printed by T. Leach for Tho. Johnson, 1664), by England) England and Wales. Court of Sewers (Lincolnshire (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King and Queen, a proclamation for the careful custody and well ordering of the new river brought from Chadwell and Amwell to the north parts of the city of London (London : Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb ..., 1689), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary), Mary 1662-1694, and William 1650-1702 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• J.N. Hearder's guide to sea fishing and the rivers of South Devon, and descriptive catalogue of his prize river and sea fishing tackle, cricket, archery, croquet, umbrellas, parasols, &c., &c. (Plymouth [England] : J.W. Skardon, printer, [approximately 1870], 1870), by Jonathan N. Hearder (page images at HathiTrust)

• An answer to the objections of the citizens of York, against the bill for making navigable the rivers Aire and Calder: ([London? : s.n., 1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case for making the rivers Aire and Calder in the county of York navigable to Leeds and Wakefield ([London : s.n., 1699]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Shakespeare's Avon from sources to Severn (Cornish Brothers, 1901), by Charles Showell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A picturesque guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and the adjacent country (Printed for Hookham and Carpenter ..., 1793), by Julius Ibbetson, J. Hassell, and John Laporte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rambles by rivers. The Avon. (C. Knight & co., 1845), by James Thorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Avon and Shakespeare's country (Methuen & co., ltd., 1927), by A. G. Bradley and A. R. Quinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Avon and Shakespeare's country (E. P. Dutton & co., 1910), by A. G. Bradley and A. R. Quinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Warwickshire Avon; notes by A. T. Quiller-Couch. Illustrations by Alfred Parsons. (Harper & brothers, 1892), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Alfred Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Avon from source to Severn (Cornish brothers, 1901), by Charles Showell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The idyllic Avon; being a simple description of the Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon, with songs & pictures of the river and its neighbourhood (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1906), by John Henry Garrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Shakespeare country; Shakespeare's Avon from source to Severn (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1925), by Charles Showell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Avon and Shakespeare's country (Methuen & Co., 1913), by A. G. Bradley and A. R. Quinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Warwickshire Avon (Harper & Bros., 1892), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Bruce Rogers, Alfred Parsons, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Warwickshire Avon. (n.p., 1891), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Warwickshire Avon, by Arthur Quiller-Couch, illust. by Alfred Parsons (Gutenberg ebook)

• An answer to the objections of the citizens of York, against the bill for making navigable the rivers Aire and Calder: ([London? : s.n., 1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case for making the rivers Aire and Calder in the county of York navigable to Leeds and Wakefield ([London : s.n., 1699]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Deeside regional planning scheme <Chester & Flintshire> (The University press of Liverpool, ltd.;, 1923), by Patrick Abercrombie, Theodore Fyfe, and Sydney Appleton Kelly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The river Dee : its aspect and history (J. S. Virtue, 1892), by John Saul Howson and Alfred Rimmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deeside (A. & C. Black, 1911), by Robert Anderson and William Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An answer to the objections, against making the river Darwent navigable: ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fishing in Eden, a record of fifty years with rod and line in the valleys of the Eden and Eamont; to which are added some practical notes on flies and tackle (H. F. & G. Witherby, 1922), by William Nelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Fleet: its river, prison, and marriages (T. F. Unwin, 1888), by John Ashton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fleet : its river, prison and marriages (Scribner and Welford, 1888), by John Ashton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages, by John Ashton (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Ouse. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1891), by Albert John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Picturesque Views on the River Medway (London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793), by Samuel Ireland (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Eighty picturesque views on the Thames and Medway, engraved on steel by the first artists. (Black and Armstrong, 1834), by W. G. Fearnside (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tombleson's Thames. (Tombleson & Compy., 1834), by W. G. Fearnside and William Tombleson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames & Medway : a series of eighty splendid engravings, displaying the most picturesque waterside scenery of ten counties from drawings by Tombleson. With interesting historical descriptions (T. Holmes, 1834), by W. G. Fearnside (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dumnonia and the valley of the parret (Barnicott and Pearce, 1922), by William Henry Parr Greswell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A pictorial handbook to the valley of the Ribble (Haworth and Johnson, 1882), by Thomas Johnson and Charles Haworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles by the Ribble : first series (W. Dobson ... ;, 1877), by William Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A book of the Severn (Dodd, Mead, 1920), by A. G. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of the Severn : With sixteen illus. in colour by R.H. Buxton. (Dodd, Mead, 1920), by A. G. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The fishing diary, 1809-1819, of the Rev. Richard Durnford of Chilbolton, Hampshire (Warren ;, 1911), by Richard Durnford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Naturalist on the Thames, by C. J. Cornish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Thames; or, Graphic illustrations of seats, villas, public buildings, & picturesque scenery on the banks of that noble river ... (Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1811), by William Bernard Cooke and Samuel Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• River Thames (Harper & brothers, 1926), by F. V. Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course; including particular descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court. (H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Fisher Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historic Thames (J. M. Dent;, 1907), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rambles by rivers. The Thames. [Another issue] (C. Cox, 1849), by James Thorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of papers relating to the Thames quay : with hints for some further improvements in the metropolis. (Carpenter and Son, 1827), by F. W. Trench (page images at HathiTrust)
• The river of London (T. N. Foulis, 1912), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the commerce and police of the river Thames: containing an historical view of the trade of the port of London ... With an account of the functions of the various magistrates and corporations exercising jurisdiction on the river ... (Printed for J. Mawman, 1800), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Port of London and the Thames Barrage. A series of expert studies and reports on the conditions prevailing in the tidal river and estuary of the Thames; dealing especially with its geological, engineering, navigation, sanitary, trading and commercial aspects, and the effects upon these of various proposals which have been made for improvement of the tidal river as the Port of London. Comprising independendt studies and investigations by the engineer to the Thames Barrage Committee, T.W. Barber ... and by C.J. Dibdin ... E.T. Hennell ... Clayton Beadle ... D. Urquhart ... Issued by the Thames Barrage Committee. (S.Sonnenschein & Compy., Ltd., 1907), by London Thames Barrage Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames (Clarendon Press, 1871), by John Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The naturalist on the Thames (Seeley, 1902), by C. J. Cornish (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic Thames. (J.M. Dent, 1909), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Father Thames (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1923), by Walter Higgins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thames rights and Thames wrongs, a disclosure. (A. Constable and Co., 1895), by John Bickerdyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stream of pleasure. A narrative of a journey on the Thames from Oxford to London. (Macmillan & Co., 1891), by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames; a sketch-book. (A. & C. Black, 1921), by R. Sharpley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Thames (Smith, Elder, & co., 1909), by James Edmund Vincent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In Thamseland; being the gossiping record of rambles through England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with casual studies of the English people, their historic, literary, and romantic shrines. The whole forming a complete guide to the Thames valley. (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1906), by Henry Wellington Wack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic Thames (Dent, 1909), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thames (Blackie and son, limited, 1910), by G. E. Mitton and Ernest W. Haslehust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our river... (Bradbury, Agnew & co., 1888), by George Dunlop Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course; including particular descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court. (H.G. Bohn, 1845), by John Fisher Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archaelogic and historic fragments. Containing, inter alia, a facsimile of a rare ms. page dated 1638, having reference to two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, with notes thereon. (Whiting & co., 1887), by George Robert Nicol Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Thames (W. Gardner, Darton & co., ltd., 1922), by Walter Higgins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic Thames (J. M. Dent & co.;, 1907), by Hilaire Belloc and A. R. Quinton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Round about the upper Thames (Duckworth & co., 1922), by Alfred Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thames: Oxford to London. (George Bell, 1882), by Owen John Dullea and David Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Picturesque views on the river Thames, from its source in Glocestershire to the Nore; with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity ... (T. Egerton, 1800), by Samuel Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighty picturesque views on the Thames and Medway, engraved on steel by the first artists. (Black and Armstrong, 1834), by W. G. Fearnside (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stream of pleasvre. (T. F. Unwin, 1891), by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tombleson's Thames. (Tombleson & Compy., 1834), by W. G. Fearnside and William Tombleson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The royal river, the Thames, from source to sea; descriptive, historical, pictorial. (Cassell and company, limited, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the commerce and police of the River Thames: containing an historical view of the trade of the port of London; and suggesting means for preventing the depredations thereon, by a legislative system of river police. With an account of the functions of the various magistrates and corporations exercising jurisdiction on the river; and a general view of the penal and remedial statutes connected with the subject (J. Mawman, 1800), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the river Thames &c : with the city of London's jurisdiction and conservacy thereof proved, both in point of right and usage, by prescription, charters, acts of Parliament, decrees ... To which is added, A brief description of those fish, with their seasons, spawning-times, &c, that are caught in the Thames, or sold in London ... To which are added rules, orders, and ordinances ... for the more effectual preservation and improvement of the spawn and fry of fish, and for the better regulating the fishery thereof. (Printed for T. Longman, 1758), by Roger Griffiths and Robert Binnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• By Thames and Cottswold; sketches of the country. (Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., 1908), by William Holden Hutton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic Thames (J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1907), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our river [the Thames] (Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1881), by George Dunlop Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames : or, graphic illustrations of seats, villas, public buildings and picturesque scenery on the banks of that noble river (Printed for Vernor, Hood & Sharpe and W.B. Cooke, 1811), by William Bernard Cooke and Samuel Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the river Thames, &c., with the city of London's jurisdiction and conservancy thereof proved both in point of right and usage by prescription, charters, acts of Parliament, decrees ... To which is added, A brief description of those fish, with their seasons, spawning times, &c. that are caught in the Thames, or sold in London. To which are added, rules, orders, and ordinances ... for the more effectual preservation and improvement of the spawn and fry of fish and for the better regulating the fishery thereof. (Printed for T. Longman, 1758), by Roger Griffiths and Robert Binnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pictorial history of the Thames (Chatto & Windus, 1889), by Alexis Sidney Krausse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames illustrated : a picturesque journeying from Richmond to Oxford (G. Newnes, 1897), by John Leyland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kühleborn (Advertiser Steam Presses, 1881), by professor Blot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames and its story : from the Cotswolds to the Nore. (Cassell and Co., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London to the Nore (Black, 1905), by W. L. Wyllie and M. A. Wyllie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the Thames : from its rise to its fall (Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1859), by S. C. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles by rivers. The Thames. (C. Cox, 1847), by James Thorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tiber and the Thames; their associations, past and present ... (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1876), by Edward C. Bruce and Sarah Butler Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course, including particular descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court. (H.G. Bohn, 1862), by John Fisher Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles by rivers. The Thames. (C. Cox, 1849), by James Thorne and William Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor Jack (H.G. Bohn, 1850), by Frederick Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tidal Thames with twenty full page photogravure plates printed on India paper, and other illustrators, after original drawings (Cassell, 1892), by Grant Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames (Black, 1903), by Walter Besant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thames (A. & C. Black, 1906), by Mortimer Menpes and G. E. Mitton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Isis and Thamesis; hours on the river from Oxford to Henley (Seeley & co., 1886), by Alfred John Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal Thames guide, containing thirty-five diagrams from lock to lock, and over one hundred illustrations from Putney to Oxford ... (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life on the upper Thames (Virtue, Spalding, and co., 1875), by H. R. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickens's dictionary of the Thames : from its source to the Nore : an unconventional handbook (Macmillan, 1886), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up the river from Westminster to Windsor and Oxford; a descriptive panorama of Thames scenery. (Waterlow, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of rivers. (G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1866), by Royal Commission on the Best Means for Preventing the Pollution of Rivers (1865 : Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames (A. & C. Black, 1911), by T. H. Manners Howe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The river of London. (Le Roy Phillips, 1913), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stripling Thames; a book of the river above Oxford (F. S. Thacker, 1909), by Frederick Samuel Thacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of the Thames, from its rise to its fall (Alfred W. Bennett :, 1867), by S. C. Hall, Alfred W. Bennett, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Virtue and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the Thames : from its rise to its fall (London : J. S. Virtue and Company, Limited, [between 1860 and 1900?], 1860), by S. C. Hall and Mrs. S. C. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the Thames : from its rise to its fall (London ; New York : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1869., 1869), by S. C. Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Petter & Galpin Cassell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historic Thames (J. M. Dent, 1914), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thames & Medway : a series of eighty splendid engravings, displaying the most picturesque waterside scenery of ten counties from drawings by Tombleson. With interesting historical descriptions (T. Holmes, 1834), by W. G. Fearnside (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thames conservancy. (Davis and sons, 1882), by Ernest H. Fishbourne and Thames Conservancy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of the Thames. (Dickens & Evans, 1893), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The River of London, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by John Muirhead (Gutenberg ebook)
• Father Thames, by Walter Higgins (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great Thames Barrage, by Thomas Walter Barber (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Thames, by G. E. Mitton, illust. by Mortimer Menpes (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Floating Home, by J. B. Atkins and Cyril Ionides, illust. by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Thames, by G. E. Mitton, illust. by E. W. Haslehust (Gutenberg ebook)
• Acts & Orders (Printed at London : by Isaac Iaggard, printer to the Honourable Citie of London, [1623?]), by City of London (England). Court of Common Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Argument and reasons of the brethren of Trinity-house, touching the breach in the level near Purfleet in Essex whereby the river of Thames is much damnify'd, and the navigation thereof greatly obstructed, and in danger of being wholly destroy'd. ([London? : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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