Seven Springs, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - source of Thames - postcard c.1910

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  'Source of the Thames', Seven Springs, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
• Publisher:  Valentines (16377 JV)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
• Notes / condition:  light corner album wear

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Seven Springs is a hamlet in the parish of Coberley in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire in England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Cheltenham. Located at the intersection of the A435 and the A436 roads, it is the source of the River Churn which flows south across the Cotswold through Cirencester and joins the River Thames near Cricklade. It is regularly argued as the real source of the River Thames. There is a plaque to this effect where the combined stream emerges from under the Andoversford–Gloucester road, reading HIC TUUS O TAMESINE PATER SEPTEMGEMINUS FONS (Here, Father Thames, is your seven-fold source).^[2]

Seven Springs is regularly argued as the real source the River Thames as it is further from the mouth than the conventional location of Thames Head near Kemble. Additionally the River Churn flows all year round whereas the Winterbourne from Thameshead to Cricklade is often dry throughout the summer. The 29 miles of the River Churn would add 14 miles (23 km) to the Thames, making it 229 miles (369 km) long, 9 miles (14 km) longer than the River Severn, the longest river in England and Wales, and longer than the River Shannon at 360.5 km (224 miles) the longest river in the British isles.^[3][4]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=gloucestershire

number of items=single

period=pre - 1914

postage condition=unposted