id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13046 Belloc, Hilaire The Historic Thames .txt text/plain 54622 2110 64 among a great number of closely connected river basins, the Thames The conditions which give a river this great historic importance, the The five centuries of active Roman civilisation saw the river replaced Of the way in which the Thames was a necessary great road in early great majority of cases on the Thames it does indicate a place where It is a tribute to the great place of the river in history that there It originally crossed the river half-a-mile below Cricklade Bridge, so with the roads across the Thames Valley in Roman times. north bank of the river to the pre-historic crossing place at Goring town of the upper Thames Valley at the opening of the tenth century, The great Roman roads continued until the twelfth century to be the so great a place in modern England as did Westminster, at the close of ./cache/13046.txt ./txt/13046.txt