Walking to Staines

We've discovered (from the lovely Tesco lady) yesterday that Staines is in easy walking distance from our mooring at Runnymede so on Friday (27th September) we set out, it took about 40 minutes each way so I reckon it's about 2 miles ...

The photos are from our walk home, above taken from Staines Bridge looking towards Runnymede ...

and over the bridge...

we walk along the Thames Path (towpath).

We've seen one of these posts before and think it was when we took a walk along the Slough Arm of the GUC a few years ago. Some links here that may be useful ...

what does this mean?

Coal Duitse Act

see also

Explanation of the markings on the post ... a bit complex!

Before the 1962 Act, Acts were instead numbered consecutively within each session of Parliament. A session of Parliament was in turn denominated by the regnal year or years in which it fell. A regnal year is the year from one anniversary of a monarch's accession to the throne to the next. Queen Victoria came to throne on 20th June 1837, so her first regnal year lasted from that date until 19th June 1838, and therefore her 24th year from 20th June 1860 to 19th June 1861. Sessions of Parliament frequently (depending on the monarch's date of accession) commenced in one regnal year and finished in the next. So the session that ran from February to August 1861 was partly in Victoria's 24th regnal year and partly in her 25th, and was therefore known as the Session "24 & 25 Victoria", abbreviated as "24 & 25 Vict". The London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Act 1861 was the 42nd Act passed in that session so its numerical citation is "24 & 25 Vict cap 42".

A small arm off the river with moored boats but there's no way they will get out unless some serious dredging is done the water couldn't have been more than 12" deep!