Encouraged by rising prices, London housing developers are cranking up production, particularly on sites along the Thames River.
Once fully restored, the trust hopes to again link Littlehampton on the south coast with the River Thames via the River Wey.
It is part of the Thames River Festival taking place this weekend.
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Moody and sublime, the painting is part of a celebrated series Monet painted of the Thames River in the early 20th century.
Since we are fresh from the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and the Thames River pageant it is worth reminding ourselves of what has been lost since the 1977 Silver Jubilee.
In London, a new air tram cable car spanning the Thames River opened this week, connecting visitors with Olympic venues and giving them spectacular views of the city.
It is also planning a project in West Africa, as well as closer to home in London, cleaning up the Thames River in the runup to the 2012 Olympics, which are to be held in the city.
When you get to the crest of the bridge over the Thames River, you can see the center of global innovation in undersea warfare a mile down-river to your right, the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics.
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Thames Water said the works at Abingdon would ensure the quality of the water in the River Thames was "exceptionally high".
The canal linked the Kennet and Avon Canal near Melksham to the Thames and Severn Canal near Cricklade and the River Thames near Abingdon.
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But the ultimate aim of the trust is to restore the waterway from the Kennet and Avon Canal near Melksham to the Thames and Severn Canal near Cricklade and the River Thames near Abingdon.
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The Dartford Crossing links the M25 across the River Thames and carries about 150, 000 vehicles a day.
There could be a lot of empty seats in the proposed 20, 000 seat arena on the banks of the River Thames.
They hope to provide more floating stage concerts at the new venue alongside the banks of the River Thames for both popular and classical music.
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The legendary group, whose hits include Surfin' USA, will perform on the first night of the five-day event on the banks of the River Thames.
To ease congestion at London's Heathrow Airport, the architecture firm Gensler recently unveiled plans for a floating airport that would be built right in the middle of the River Thames.
Up here, where the traffic is reduced to a hum, you can trace the bends of the River Thames with your fingertips, and the trains on the tracks below resemble collectable Hornby models.
For example, the facility at Pitsea in Britain, on the banks of the River Thames near London, accepts only solid municipal and commercial waste, because European law prohibits the mingling of liquid and solid waste, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
It is hoped the new centre, on the Berkshire side of the River Thames, will open by 2014.
He said most of the flooding had happened on the south side of the River Thames, away from most buildings.
It is part of the eighth Thames River Festival, which is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of people this weekend.
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But unlike on Sunday, when torrential rain soaked the jubilee pageant on the River Thames, the showers did not become a downpour.
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The Tate's modern art collection will be moved to its new development at Bankside, on the south bank of the River Thames.
The Tottenham bid has been submitted in collaboration with AEG, which runs the O2 Arena beside the River Thames in Greenwich, south London.
The palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the London borough of the City of Westminster, close to the government buildings of Whitehall.
The Wey and Arun Canal, which was opened in 1816 as a link between London and the south coast via the River Thames, runs from Shalford, in Surrey, to Pallingham in West Sussex.
Then in 1977 the seeds were sown of a Museum of Garden History claimed to be the first of its kind in the world in a redundant church on the south bank of the River Thames in London.
Canadian Virginia Bennett, who lives in one of the residential apartments facing the River Thames, was getting ready to take her dog Abby for a walk when the morning calm was shattered by "the noise of metal crashing".
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Dave McKnight, from the Environment Agency, said the River Thames continued to flow extremely fast.
The Wilts and Berks Canal, completed in 1810, was a 52-mile (84km) link between the canal at Semington and the River Thames near Abingdon.
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