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To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Oldham on 1 December (HL208), what is the distinction between “Thames” and “River Thames” in the table of consented discharges. [HL461]
There is no distinction between the term “Thames” and “River Thames”. They both refer to the freshwater river Thames.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Oldham on 1 December (HL208), what is the distinction between “Eastings” and “Northings” in the table of consented discharges. [HL462]
Northings and Eastings are the two numbers used within the Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system for stating the position of any point in Britain on an OS map. A Northing refers to the position of the point along the vertical axis and an Easting refers to the position of the point along the horizontal axis on an OS map.