The Thames Path is one of England’s most scenic long-distance walks, and a good trail guide can make all the difference. Whether you’re planning the whole route or just dipping into a section or two. Below, you’ll find a range of guidebooks that highlight routes, maps, and local insights to help you get the most from your walk. These are Amazon Affiliate links. That means if you decide to purchase a guide through one of the links, we’ll receive a small commission, at no extra cost to you. Your support helps keep this site running and allows us to continue sharing resources for Thames Path walkers.
The Thames Path (Cicerone Press)
- Author – Leigh Hatts
- Publisher – Cicerone Press
- Publication Year / Edition – 1 May 2023
- ISBN – 978-1786311481
- Price – £14.25
A guidebook to walking the Thames Path, a 293km (182 mile) route between Woolwich Foot Tunnel in London and Cirencester in Gloucestershire. This long-distance walk along the River Thames is suitable for walkers of all abilities and can be walked in 3 weeks.
Thames Path (Trailblazer Guides)
- Authors – Joel Newton, Anna Udagawa & William Allberry
- Publisher – Trailblazer Publications
- Publication Year / Edition – 6 May 2022
- ISBN – 978-1912716272
- Price – £10.79
This newly rewalked Thames Path guide shows the route in both directions, from the Thames Head (the Cotswolds) to Woolwich (London) & London to Thames Head, including large-scale trail maps printed in two colours, places to stay, places to eat and public transport information. It is the first guide to the Thames Path that includes the Trail’s extension in London to the Woolwich Foot Tunnel, where it links with the England Coast Path National Trail.
Thames Path National Trail Guide
- Authors – David Sharp & Tony Gowers
- Publisher – Aurum
- Publication Year / Edition – 4 August 2016
- ISBN – 978-1781315750
- Price – £11.95
This edition has a wealth of new information about the many sights and places of interest along the way, from Wittenham Clumps that Paul Nash used to paint to Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant at Bray, as well as full walking tours of historic Oxford and Windsor & Eton. There are sections on Stanley Spencer at Cookham, and Cliveden and the Cliveden Set, as well as on handsome and interesting towns like Henley and Abingdon.