Embanking of the tidal Thames
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The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a broad, shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed into a deep, narrow tidal canal. With small beginnings in Roman Londinium, it was pursued more vigorously in the Middle Ages. Mostly it was achieved by farmers reclaiming marshland and building protective embankments or, in London, frontagers pushing out into the stream to get more riverfront property. The Victorian civil engineering works in central London, usually called "the Embankment", are just a small part of the process. Today, over 200 miles of walls line the river's banks from Teddington down to its mouth in the North Sea; they defend a tidal flood plain where 1.25 million people work and live.
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Embanking of the tidal Thames
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"Whereas one Cornelius Vanderdelf of Barowe in Brabant in the parts beyond the Sea at his own proper cost and charge according to the King's high pleasure and commandment hath workmanly and substantially inned and fenced a certain ground containing by estimation 130 acres, lying and being besides St Katharine nigh unto the Tower of London and in the parish and town of Stepney, which 130 acres abut upon the highway leading from London to Ratcliff on the north part and upon the Thames on the south part, and the east part abutteth upon the Town of Ratcliff and the west part abutteth upon St Katharine aforesaid, which ground heretofore was continually for the most part surrounded drowned and overflown by the Water of the River of Thames ..." — Statute of Henry VIII.
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Q. You are the Rector of Lambeth? A. I am.
Q. Are the banks of the Thames adjoining the parish of Lambeth in good repair? A. They are, but they are not high enough; we suffer very much from floods.
Q. Do floods frequently occur? A. Whenever we have high tides.
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"Marsh wall too slight, strength now or good night" — Thomas Tusser, October's Husbandry
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"The Jurors did present upon their Oaths; that a certain person of antient time Lord of the Mannour of Stebenhethe [Stepney], whose name they knew not, did by his industry recover a certain Marsh there, contain∣ing about an hundred Acres of Land, which Marsh was then drowned by the overflowing of the Thames..." — Dugdale, History of Imbanking, XV
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The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a broad, shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed into a deep, narrow tidal canal. With small beginnings in Roman Londinium, it was pursued more vigorously in the Middle Ages. Mostly it was achieved by farmers reclaiming marshland and building protective embankments or, in London, frontagers pushing out into the stream to get more riverfront property. The Victorian civil engineering works in central London, usually called "the Embankment", are just a small part of the process. Today, over 200 miles of walls line the river's banks from Teddington down to its mouth in the North Sea; they defend a tidal flood plain where 1.25 million people work and live. Formerly, it could not be believed that the Thames was embanked by local people so the works were attributed to "the Romans". It has been argued that land reclamation in the Thames contributed to the decay of the feudal system. Other political consequences were said to be two clauses in Magna Carta, and one of the declared causes of the English Civil War. The deepening of the Thames made it navigable by larger ships that could travel further inland: an unforeseen result was the growth of the world's largest port. Much of present-day London is recovered marshland, and considerable parts lie below high water mark. Some London streets originated as tracks running along the wall and yet today, are not even in sight of the river.
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