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This article lists the islands in the River Thames, or at the mouth of a tributary (marked †), in England.It excludes human-made islands built as part of the building of forty-five two-gate locks which each accompany a weir, and islets subordinate to and forming part of the overall shape of another.
Steven's Ait, 4 October 2008. River traffic is directed to the Middlesex side because of posts and mooring on the Surrey side (east here). [6] The island is the base of the Small Boat Club (SBC), a not-for-profit motorboats club formed in 1953 run by the members for the members, using its carved out basin in the north and reinforced moorings on all sides. [2]
Eyot House and footbridge Shepperton, showing D'Oyly Carte Island near the bottom, just north of Weybridge. D'Oyly Carte Island is a small private island in the River Thames, England, administratively and historically part of Weybridge, near its other inhabited islands and near part of Old Shepperton, on the reach above Sunbury Lock, 200 metres downstream from Shepperton Lock.
The name of the island is derived from Platt of Molesey who used it for growing withers. [2]Boatbuilding began on the island in 1868, when Thomas Tagg, who had been running a business since 1841 on Tagg's Island, about 1 km (0.62 mi) downstream, expanded by building a boatyard and house on the eastern end of Platt's Eyot.
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The Rakaia River in the South Island of New Zealand is braided over most of its course. A braided river (also called braided channel or braided stream) consists of a network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars or, in British English usage, aits or eyots.
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