Phillimore Island

Phillimore Island

Phillimore Island is an island in the River Thames in England near the villages of Shiplake, Oxfordshire and Wargrave, Berkshire. It is on the reach above Shiplake Lock.

The island is named after the Phillimore family who were formerly the owners of Shiplake House - now Shiplake College on the Oxfordshire bank. [Fred. S. Thacker "The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs" 1920 - republished 1968 David & Charles]

ee also

*Islands in the River Thames

References

External links

* [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.asp?index=13&main_query=&theme=&period=&county=&district=&place_name=Shiplake&imageUID=53441 Photograph] by Henry Taunt from English Heritage

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