Guards Club Island

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Guards Club Island (upstream side) showing Guards Club Island Bridge and Guards Club Park to the right Guards Club Island looking downstream (Nancy).JPG
Guards Club Island (upstream side) showing Guards Club Island Bridge and Guards Club Park to the right
Guards Club Island (downstream side) and Maidenhead Railway Bridge with Maidenhead Bridge beyond Maidenhead Railway Bridge and Guards Club Island (Nancy).JPG
Guards Club Island (downstream side) and Maidenhead Railway Bridge with Maidenhead Bridge beyond
Guards Club Island
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River Thames
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Fleet River
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weir
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Hedsor Wharf
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weir
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bridges
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Cookham Lock
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Formosa Island
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Strand Water
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White Brook
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Kayaking
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Ray Mill
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Boulter's Lock
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Taplow mill
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Jubilee River --
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-- (to Old Windsor Lock)
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Ray Mill Road West
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Grass Eyot
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Bridge Eyot
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Moor Cut
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York Road
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Guards Club Island
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Great Western Main Line
Maidenhead Railway Bridge
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Forlease Road
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York Stream
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Weir and boat rollers
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(proposed Green Lane lock)
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St Michael's Church, Bray
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Bray Cut
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Headpile Eyot
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Bray Lock, island and weir
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Bray Mill
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The Cut, Berkshire
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The Cut
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River Thames

Guards Club Island, also known as Bucks Ait or bucks' eyot is an island in the River Thames connected by footbridge by to Maidenhead, Berkshire accommodating a pier adjoining the Sounding Arch part of the railway bridge which was built in 1838 to designs by Brunel. The thin small island is connected to Guards Club Park by a low cast-iron and wood footbridge which blocks the near channel (backwater) to boat navigation apart from kayaks. The island gets its alternative name from eel bucks [1] from which the footbridge was adapted in 1865 to allow access to its Guards Club Boathouse (since demolished).

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The island is special status part of Guards Club Park (a public open space). Access to the island, a nesting site for water fowl, is restricted between December and June.

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References

  1. Cove-Smith, Chris (2006). The River Thames Book. Imray Laurie Norie and Wilson. ISBN   0-85288-892-9.

See also

Next island upstream River Thames Next island downstream
Bridge Eyot Guards Club Island Headpile Eyot

Coordinates: 51°31′18″N0°42′07″W / 51.5217°N 0.7020°W / 51.5217; -0.7020