Thames Path National Trail

This account is verified. Learn more

@ThamesPathNT

Follow the iconic river on #ThamesPath @NationalTrails. 185.2 miles of history, wildlife, villages, towns, cities and beautiful countryside from source to sea.

England, UK nationaltrail.co.uk/thames-path Joined February 2016

843 Following 5.9K Followers 17K Posts

Latest posts 5

Pinned post

Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT Jul 24

#OTD 1996 the Thames Path National Trail officially opened at the Thames Barrier in Greenwich. Since then thousands of people follow the National Trail's acorn icon on wooden and metal fingerposts along the 185.2 mile route from the source of the River Thames to the sea in London. Acorn-shaped batons made from two oak fingerposts featured in the Thames Path Relay #thamespath30
@PeterFinch12067 @CampaignerKate @TheThamesPath 1/3🧵👇

One of the oak fingerposts used to make Acorn Batons for the Relay. This one near Ashton Keynes was in the ground for more than 20 years.

Roger Baker, who designed the Acorn Baton, carrying it in his rucksack on the last leg of the Thames Path Relay

Harry, the wood-turner from Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, making an Acorn Baton from the oak fingerpost.

Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT 19h

Remembering the brave young men who flew and fought in the Battle of Britain, and the women and men who supported them, and protected London during the Blitz, all depicted in this wonderful Battle of Britain Monument on the Thames Path at Victoria Embankment. #RemembranceDay
@RiverThames @LondonStone @colguides

Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT 1d

Do you have favourite statues and sculptures alongside the Thames and on the Thames Path through London? Four of our current favourites (descriptions in the Alt text) didn't make Patricia's edit in @Tidal_Thames95 blog 👇 There are so many wonderful statues and sculptures!
thetidalthames.com/2026/11/08/fav…
@colguides @RiverThames @ThamesFestTrust @JohnMTippetts

Ada Salter, a social reformer and politician whose vision included green spaces in London's housing estates and the Green Belt around London

People enjoying one of the new public art spaces commissioned by the Tideway 'Super Sewer' project. At Effra Quay these bronze toilets by Richard Wentworth reference the nearby Royal Doulton factory that made sanitary ware. https://www.tideway.london/impact/art-on-the-tideway/permanent-commissions/richard-wentworth-2/

Sir Laurence Olivier, one of the finest Shakespearean actors of 20th century, as Hamlet in this statue outside the National Theatre which he founded, on the South Bank.

One of two bronze sphinxes that flank the red granite obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, which was originally erected in 1450 BC in Egypt and is now on the Victoria Embankment. The faux-Egyptian sphinxes were made in 1881.

Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT 2d

This glorious London Plane tree graces the Ridgeway and Thames Path National Trails in Goring-on-Thames. #thicktrunktuesday #sunshine #trees
@TiCLme

Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT 4d

On Remembrance Sunday remember The Upper Thames Patrol, a water-borne defence force to protect the Thames as a strategic barrier against invasion, watching locks, bridges, weirs, rail crossings and landing places. Formed in Abingdon in 1939 by Sir Ralph Glyn MP, the 'UTP' was the Home Guard Navy with 116 boats patrolling the river from Lechlade to Teddington and walking the river banks every day. The Thames in Wartime 🔽
thames250exhibition.com/the-thames-in-…
@RiverThames @BerksArchives @AbingdonMuseum