Battersea, 340, 347 Baynards Castle, 160 Becket, Thomas, 145, 151, 274 Benfleet, 39 Besant, Sir Walter, 162-3, 184 Big Ben, 225 Billingsgate, 101-2 Black Death, 161 Blackfriars, 195-7 Blackwall, 112-3 Tunnel, 113 Boatrace, Universities, 259, 338 Boleyn, Anne, 175-7, 310-11 Brentford, 336 Bridges, 205, 230, 232, 242 Buckingham Palace, 208 Bushey Park, 316 Canning Town, 114 Canute, 141-2 Canvey Island, 38-9 Cement, 49, 55-6 Chatham, 46-7 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 162, 294 Chelsea, 341, 343-4, 347 Cherwell, 257-8 Chilterns, 10, 268-70 Cholsey, 284 Churn, River, 240 Cleopatra’s Needle, 228 Cliveden Woods, 282-3 Coal, 114-5, 164-5 Coldharbour Palace, 160 Colne, River, 240 Cookham, 279 Cooling Castle, 52-3 County Hall, 232-3 Cremorne Gardens, 343 Cricklade, 240 Crosby Hall, 159 Culham, 284 Cumnor, 243 Customs Officers, 115-6 Dagenham Breach, 70 Dagenham Dock, 71 Marshes, 68-71 Danes, 18, 33, 140-1 Defoe, Daniel, 36, 183-4 Dene-holes at Grays, 67-8 De Ruyter, 41 Dickens, Charles, 51, 52 Dockland, 24-6 Docks: Blackwall, 112-3 East India, 104 Execution, 102, 110 London, 110-1 Millwall, 112 Regent’s Canal, 111 Royal Albert, 113-4 St. Katherine’s, 102, 105 St. Saviour’s, 102, 108 Surrey Commercial, 112 Victoria, 113 West India, 112 “Don Saltero,” 343 Dorchester, 265-6 Duke of Buckingham, 205 Dumouriez, 53 Durham Palace, 207 Dutch in the Medway, 42-5 Eastchurch, 35 East Ham, 113-4 East India Docks, 104 Edward the Confessor, 211 Eleanor of Provence, 153, 223 Embankment, The, 227-8 Estuary, The, 16-19, 31-39 defence of, 52 Eton College, 298-304 Evelyn, John, 41, 61-2, 186-90 Evenlode, River, 243 Execution Dock, 110-1 Fire of London, the Great, 159 FitzStephen, 145-7 Flamsteed, 99 Fleet River, 193-5 Street, 195 Fobbing, 60 Fort Grain, 35 Franklin, Sir John, 66 Frindsbury, 49 Fulham, 339 Godstow, 243 Goring Gap, 267-8 Gravesend, 52-6 proposed dam, 62-3 Grays, 67 Great Marlow, 281-2 Greenhithe, 21, 66 Greenwich, 87-100 Hospital, 92-7 Ministerial dinners at, 91 Observatory, 98-100 Royal births at, 89 Grey, Lady Jane, 175 Hakluyt, 90-1 Halley, 100 Hampton Court, 305-16 Harold, King, 143, 288 Henley, 280-1 Holiday Thames, 279-284 Houses of Parliament, 220-6 Howard, Katherine, 175-7 “Humphrey Clinker,” 342 Humphrey, Duke, 88 Hungerford House, 206 Iffley, 262 Isis, 239, 259 Isle of Dogs, 112 Grain, 35 Isleworth, 332 Jack Straw, 60 John Ball, 60 Jones, Inigo, 92 Kelmscott, 241 Kennet, River, 277 Kew Gardens, 333-5 Palace, 335 Kingston, 317-25 Knights of the Garter, 296-7 Knights Templar, 199-202 Lambeth, 344-7 Lechlade, 239 Legal quays, 102 Limehouse, 111-2 Basin, 111 Reach, Medway, 49 Llyndin Hill, 125, 130