Desborough Island is a 112-acre (0.45 km2) manmade island in the River Thames on the reach above Sunbury Lock in Surrey, England. It was formed in the...
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flies, and its construction created Desborough Island. Two bridges were built across the cut to link to the island, which contains a water treatment works...
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River Thames (section Canvey Island flood of 1953)
creating several islands (Fiddler's Island, Osney and others). Desborough Island, Ham Island at Old Windsor and Penton Hook Island were artificially...
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William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, DL (30 October 1855 – 9 January 1945) was a British athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician...
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of the river. Construction of the cut created the 45 ha (110-acre) Desborough Island, the entirety of which is in Weybridge. The London and Southampton...
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runs regularly on a stretch of the river that includes a loop around Desborough Island. Local taxis: there is taxi rank at the Walton-on-Thames Station for...
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Island is a small private island in the River Thames, England, administratively and historically part of Weybridge, near its other inhabited islands and...
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advertisement. The music video, directed by Peter Sinclair, was filmed at Desborough Island in Weybridge during 1983. The video is set in Mississippi in 1870...
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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...
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post-rainfall water volumes, this being similar to Penton Hook Island and Desborough Island which were also originally peninsulas. With the additional capacity...
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