Well, my answer (probably wrong) is: none. According to my information, the Thames forms the boundary between all the counties. Clever, but doubtless not correct?
That certainly can't be true of Glos, surely (Shirley)? Ditto Berks, now I think of it. Have another look at your atlas because certainly Reading and Oxford (I'm not counting the brief name change to Isis, btw) don't form county boundaries, do they. No, I think that just leaves you with Essex and Kent.
Not necessarily so - I just think you might be! But I'm enjoying the discussion and am waiting to see if your atlas has a clearer river line than mine.
It just shows you can't believe everything you read in books. I got the "information" from Joyce Grenfell's book. She took part in Trans-Atlantic Quiz and one challenge was "to list in order the counties through which the Thames flowed, from source to sea". Incidentally, she (Joyce Grenfell) was a frequent guest at the Wentworth Hotel in Aldeburgh.
4/5 plus Greater London.
ReplyDeleteGlos
Oxon
Berks
(Greater London)
Essex and Kent, being the boundary between the two.
Well, my answer (probably wrong) is: none. According to my information, the Thames forms the boundary between all the counties. Clever, but doubtless not correct?
ReplyDeleteThat certainly can't be true of Glos, surely (Shirley)?
ReplyDeleteDitto Berks, now I think of it. Have another look at your atlas because certainly Reading and Oxford (I'm not counting the brief name change to Isis, btw) don't form county boundaries, do they. No, I think that just leaves you with Essex and Kent.
Oh well, wrong again!
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily so - I just think you might be!
ReplyDeleteBut I'm enjoying the discussion and am waiting to see if your atlas has a clearer river line than mine.
I think I've missed out a county!
ReplyDeleteWhat about Bucks? Tho that might indeed run along the county boundary with Oxfordshire.
It just shows you can't believe everything you read in books. I got the "information" from Joyce Grenfell's book. She took part in Trans-Atlantic Quiz and one challenge was "to list in order the counties through which the Thames flowed, from source to sea".
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, she (Joyce Grenfell) was a frequent guest at the Wentworth Hotel in Aldeburgh.