The cities, towns and villages along the River Thames offer a varied mix of shopping opportunities for a wonderful day out. Whether you're looking for a traditional high street brand, a treasured department store, boutique shops combined with restaurants, cafes and bistros set in historic streets or award-winning shopping centres.

Great places to shop

• Reading has town centre shopping and retail outlets just beyond the town centre. The main shopping in Reading is found in the centre, with a number of independent shops and three indoor shopping centres, offering a whole host of fashion and lifestyle brands, as well as food, drink and leisure facilities to help you relax after a day of retail therapy!  
• Windsor and Maidenhead have a mix of pedestrian-only shopping centres and shop-lined streets offering shoppers a great mixture of high-street names, independent retailers and regular markets too.  There are plenty of cafés and restaurants to stop for a 'refuel' and people watch!  At the heart of shopping in Windsor and Eton is Windsor Royal, comprising Station Shopping, a mostly covered area that occupies the site of an 1850s railway station where you can still see Queen Victoria’s royal waiting room.
• Marlow includes boutiques with a difference such as Jacu offering Japanese/Korean designs, or Moda in Pelle with their range of elegant, affordable luxury ladies shoes, a visit to a beautiful art gallery like Clarendon’s Fine Art Gallery with its contemporary paintings and sculptures, there’s plenty to keep you occupied. Don’t forget to drop into the Marlow Bookshop or join one of their events.
• Henley offers a selection of great indepedent shops combined with the smaller high street traditionals. Buy a bear at Asquiths, established in 1984, it became one of the World’s first Teddy Bear Shops. Biggie Best UK searches for its products from the bustling streets of India and Vietnam, to the sunny skies of South Africa. Collier & Robinson specialises in high quality hand-made bespoke blazers and accessories for clubs and a ‘Henley-inspired’ ready to wear collection. Corner Copia is a glorious selection of vintage, antique collectibles and bric a brac. Chocolate connoiseur, Gorvett & Stone's recipes and products are made using a french chocolate. 
• Oxford - It's Covered Market has been around since 1774. Discover over 50 independent shops, cafes, bars and experiences all under one historic roof. The updated Westgate Oxford is home to over 100 brand new stores featuring the best of the British high street as well as prestigious global brands.
• Kingston upon Thames has close to 300 stores, a bustling market place as well as a vibrant community of independent shops, it is one of the biggest shopping destinations in London.
• Richmond upon Thames provides a fun and exciting experience, you're bound to find something you love: there's luxury goods, unique one of a kind pieces as well as some fantastic antiques and jewellery. Richmond upon Thames is home to many quirky and independent businesses as well as major high street stores. 
• London's hidden gems - Close to the Thames and London Bridge is Borough Market, one of the best known produce and street food markets around. Discover London’s most exciting new shopping and leisure destination at the iconic Grade II* listed, Battersea Power Station, on the banks of the Thames. Hays Galleria celebrates its past with great gusto. Originally known as Hay’s Wharf Since the 1600s, and then the famous Larder of London in the 1800s. It was redeveloped in the 1980s and was modelled on Milan’s famous and chic Galleria on the Piazza del Duomo. The shopping arcade was elegantly designed with a striking Victorian style glass roof and the docks’ heritage was protected with its original tea and produce warehouses restored to include five interlinking buildings.
• Greenwich. Take a wander among the pretty, picturesque streets of the historic village of Maritime Greenwich, or if you love shopping for your designer labels and can’t resist a bargain, then the vibrant modernity and futuristic architecture of Greenwich Peninsula delivers the superstar brands at brilliant prices with up to 70% off RRP including, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Next, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger and many more at Outlet Shopping at The O2.