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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.
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.
However, the present location was eventually chosen, with a timber lock built in 1838. With the regular traffic of boats from Eton College to Queen's Eyot, a temporary boat slide was built in 1895, which became permanent on the site of the old lock when a new lock was built immediately to the side in 1898. The weir was rebuilt in about 1913.
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Chiswick from the river, in Walter Harrison's History of London, c. 1775 Old Chiswick is the area of the original village beside the river Thames for which the modern district of Chiswick is named. The village grew up around St Nicholas Church , founded c. 1181 and named for the patron saint of fishermen.
English: Eyot House, D'Oyly Carte Island, Weybridge. A view across the Thames to the mostly garden-and-trees island which has the private mansion of a theatre producer and moored narrowboats beyond. A view across the Thames to the mostly garden-and-trees island which has the private mansion of a theatre producer and moored narrowboats beyond.