Romney Island

Romney Island

Romney Island is an island in the River Thames in England connected to Romney Lock, at Windsor, Berkshire. It is a long thin island with trees and scrub, with the upstream end in Windsor and the downstream end almost at Black Potts.

The island has always been a popular place for angling and Isaak Walton used to fish from here. [Paul Goldsack "River Thames: In the Footsteps of the Famous" English Heritage/Bradt 2003] The island separates the weir stream from the navigation channel to the lock. There are proposals to build a hydro scheme at the weir here. They appeared to have been abandoned in February 2008 but a revised proposal was put forward in May 2008.) [ [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/thames/romneyhydro.html Proposals for hydro power scheme] ] .

ee also

*Islands in the River Thames

References

River item line|upstream=Cutlers Ait
downstream=Black Potts Ait


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