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Queens Eyot Clubhouse Queens Eyot from downstream) Queen's Eyot is an island in the River Thames in England on the reach above Boveney Lock, just upstream of Oakley Court near Windsor, Berkshire. The island is owned by Eton College and contains a club house that is available for hire for functions.
The suffix -ey (pronounced today / iː /) is common across England and Scotland and cognate with ait and meaning island, a term – as ait or eyot – unusually well-preserved on the Thames. A small minority of list entries are referred to as Island, Ait or Eyot and are vestiges, separated by a depression in the land or high-water-level gully.
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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Chiswick Eyot; Church Island, River Thames; ... Queen's Eyot; R. Raven's Ait; Ray Mill Island;
Hampton Sailing Club with boat landing stages occupies all of Benn's Island above Molesey Lock. Benn's Island, previously named Church Eyot, Kember's Eyot and sometimes referred to as Benn's Ait, [1] [n 1] is a private 0.1-acre (0.040 ha) ait (island) on the River Thames south-west of London.
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Garrick's Ait from the river downstream. Garrick's Ait (or Garrick's Eyot on Ordnance Survey maps), previously known as Shank's Eyot, is an ait in the River Thames in England on the reach above Molesey Lock, the nearest land being Moulsey Hurst (park) [n 1] on the Surrey bank and the opposite bank being a much narrower riverside park of Hampton.
The Ordnance Survey map of 1875 shows that the eyot comprised four islets and on the map of 1896 it is marked as Tathim's island. [3] Stevens was the family name of a boatman who lived in a cottage that stood in what became Canbury Gardens. [4] The present name was in use on the 1913 Ordnance Survey map. The island now forms part of a ...