Talk:Thames Head

Directions Wrong?
The directions given on the page conflict with the location shown by the link to google maps.

The link shows a location North of the A433, but the directions given direct people South of the road. Perhaps someone with local knowledge needs to check the directions, they look fundamentally flawed to me. 62.56.71.200 (talk) 15:07, 29 November 2009 (UTC)


 * You are right: the directions were not clear, but you have to cross the A433 on foot. I have clarified it. Richard75 (talk) 18:33, 29 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Having looked at multiple sources, overall "Thames Head" is used for springs on either side of the road, although individual sources do use the name differently. For example, Ordnance Survey puts the name "Thames Head" just south of the A433; but most recent textual sources refer to north of the road, where the spring with the stone sign is, in Trewsbury Mead. In the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s the photographer Henry W. Taunt photographed four "Thames Head springs", two on the north side in Trewsbury Mead, two on the south side. His "Spring 3" was just south of the road, and he photographed it from the road (from the bridge). His "Spring 4" seems to be where Lyd Well is today. His "Spring 4" had a hand pump, and an Ordnance Survey maps of the time show a Spring and pump at the Lyd Well spot, or right near it, which indicates Lyd Well was considered part of Thames Head. Taunt numbered springs 2,3,4 in his descriptions, but he did not explicitly use "Spring 1", rather he had photos just called "Thames Head spring" or "Thames Head", and this presumably is what he considered spring 1. That spring appears to be the one in Trewsbury Mead that today is marked as the "source" of the Thames. ~ Aliveness Cascade (talk) 23:09, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Good lord! why is Kemble not marketed/re-named as 'Kemble on Thames Head'
Whatever the whyfors for Staines being re-named: Staines on Thames methinks even moreso for Kemble. Do you read good folk of Kemble on Thames Head. Over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.124.185.72 (talk) 08:41, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Thames Head twinned with 'Goms Rhonehead', Upper Wallis, Switzerland?
I am led to believe Thames Head has a 'special' twinning set up with the district of 'Goms Rhonehead' (Ger. Goms Rottenquellespring) in Switzerland - the latter being also the wellspring for a well-known river, the Rhone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:411:1600:226:8FF:FEDC:FD74 (talk) 22:22, 19 September 2016 (UTC)