The Little Ice Age was not a true ice age—average cooling was probably only in the order of 0.5 degrees ... the cold conditions caused the River Thames to freeze over on multiple occasions, ...

The Little Ice Age is a period from around 1300 to 1850, ... Frost fairs on the River Thames have become a ...

The Thames froze at least 20 times, sometimes for two months or more, and between 1607 and 1814 there were five or six occasions when the ice was thick enough to hold a fair on the river.

One of the most iconic examples of the Little Ice Age’s impact could be found in London during the winter months. The River Thames actually froze during a series of 24 winters, at which point ...

This is clear over the past 2,000 years, which includes both the Medieval Warm Period, when grapes grew in Britain, and the Little Ice Age, when the Thames river froze so hard Frost Fairs were ...

This is clear over the past 2,000 years, which includes the Medieval Warm Period, when grapes grew in Britain, and the Little Ice Age, when the Thames river froze so hard that "frost fairs" were ...

Adding to that winter chill was Maunder Minimum, which Encyclopaedia Britannica says coincided with the coldest part of the ‘Little Ice Age’ (1500–1850) when the Thames river froze in ...

During the Little Ice Age, which spanned roughly 1250 to 1860, average global temperatures dropped by as much as 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons ...