River Thame

The River Thame is a river in Southern England. A tributary of the River Thames, the river runs generally south-westward for about 40 mi from its source above the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury to the Thames in south-east Oxfordshire.

Three streams which rise within the Vale of Aylesbury, on the northwest side of the Chiltern Hills, join to form the Thame to the east of the small village of Hulcott, north of Aylesbury. The Thame played a key role in the English Civil War when John Hampden led the force of Parliamentarians successfully defending Aylesbury at the Battle of Holman's Bridge, where a small road crosses the river, in 1642.

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