Embanking of the tidal Thames

The embanking of the tidal Thames is the process by which the lower River Thames was transformed by human intervention from a broad and shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between solid artificial walls, and restrained by these at high tide. The Victorian civil engineering works in central London, usually called "the Embankment", are a small part of this process.

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Embanking of the tidal Thames

The embanking of the tidal Thames is the process by which the lower River Thames was transformed by human intervention from a broad and shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between solid artificial walls, and restrained by these at high tide. The Victorian civil engineering works in central London, usually called "the Embankment", are a small part of this process.

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