Who else is "on Thames"?

If any evidence was needed to realise that 2012 was the year of the Thames, go no further than Staines and Abingdon. Both towns have joined the bandwagon by electing to add the word "Thames" to their names. Both have swans on their town crests: this one (left) belongs to Abingdon. On February 22 the local council elected to add "on Thames" to Abingdon, and on May 20, Staines will officially be renamed Staines-upon-Thames.
By joining Henley-on-Thames, Richmond Upon Thames and Kingston Upon Thames, they may hope that the glamour of some of these more attractive waterside towns will rub off on them. Until the 18th century Kingston, site of the coronation of half a dozen Saxon kings, was the first crossing point upriver from London Bridge, and no town on the river below Kingston is called "on" or "upon" Thames.

Meantime Greenwich has been granted Royal status, to join other Thameside royal boroughs Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston and Windsor. A new coat of arms (right) has been designed for the occasion, showing (1) Tudor rose (2) anchor and sea (3) helmet, facing forward as in royal coats of arms (4) Jupiter and Neptune (5) shield with the Thames flowing through it (6) stars for astronomy, hourglass for GMT, canna-on for the arsenal (7) The motto, 'We govern by serving'  remains the same.

(PS: with 300,000 French people living n London, the city has been dubbed Paris-on-Thames. This make London the sixth most populace French city, according to Roger Cohen in today's New York Times,who surmises that "they feel...the mysterious tug of energy over beauty and of edge over elegance".