London Stone at Staines

This is the London Stone at Staines, marking the upriver  boundary of the City of London's jurisdiction over the Thames. When it was installed, the river was still tidal at this point. At Bell Lock, just upriver from here, the lock keeper said there had been hardly any river traffic and he was beginning to feel redundant. But that was before the weather broke.

Downriver the Corporation's boundary was marked by the Crow Stone in Southend and, opposite the London Stone in Yantlet Creek. The London Stone in Upnor, by Upnor Castle marks its limits at the mouth of the Medway,  just before it reached the naval dockyards at Chatham.