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KINGDOM ADVENTURES BY GILDA PINEDA DIONELA

Rivers are

the Witness

of Civilization

Thames River

ENGLAND
built the very first bridge
here are several where London Bridge is
bodies of water today.
in United Other historic events
TKingdom and around Thames: Edward
for now our star will the Confessor made
be Thames River. It is the City of London as
the most well-known the centre of trade; and
of Britain’s rivers because it is the third (including the City of Westminster as the government centre.He
River Shannon of Ireland) longest river that covers 346 dreamed of restoring the ancient monastery and built the
kilometres which flows through important and equally Westminster Abbey. It was consecrated on 28th December
famous places like London, Richmond, Kingston upon 1065. He died on the 5 th of January 1066 and buried
Thames, Windsor, in his newly built church the next day. The successor of
Henley-on-Thames, Oxford and Reading. The Thames Edward was Harold, he was crowned king in Westminster
is tidal when it flows through London. River Thames Abbey, a tradition of nearly a thousand years that still in
is just next to where my effect today.
sister lives and it is my The trade in London grew steadily within the
favourite place to watch continent and with other parts of the world along the
the sunset whenever there banks of Thames. In 1700 London became the centre
is. The Romans landed in of early banking and financial activity, and world trade.
England in AD 43.In AD Several bridges were built over the Thames because of this
50, they barricaded in the prosperity to name a few; Westminster bridge, Waterloo,
first shallow part of the Southwark and Blackfriars, Tower bridge and finally
river and they called it, Millennium Bridge.
KINGDOM ADVENTURE
By Gilda Pineda Dionela Londinium (London). They

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