Ham Island

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Ham Island, is an island in the River Thames in England. It was created when the course of the river was diverted, via a cut, to avoid a weir and provide a navigable route through to Old Windsor Lock.

Today land use is divided between 37 privately-owned dwellings The original houses on the island, now almost entirely rebuilt in a more luxurious style, were quite modest- many holiday homes. The island is also the site of a water treatment plant. This locality is referred to in Three Men in a Boat [Jerome, J.K (1889; repr 1992) ISBN 0140012133] when, passing through the lock, they spy Windsor Castle in the distance. This trip is still popular today. [ [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/rivertrip01/index.html River Trips] ]

Ham Island is some distance away from the London suburb of Ham in Richmond upon Thames.

ee also

*Islands in the River Thames

Bibliography

*"The Ham Island Cookery Collection" (Ed Noble,S) 1998 Old Windsor, H.I.R.A
*"Buildings of Old Windsor" Gilson, M Old Windsor, M.F. Gilson, 1995 ISBN 0953691209

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