Temple Mill Island

Temple Mill Island

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The island is named after the three watermills that used to be on the island for beating copper and brass. The island is now has a modern housing development on it with a marina.

Daniel Defoe referred to the mills in his "A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain" (1724-1727). He referred to the "three very remarkable mills, called Temple-Mills, for making Bisham Abbey Battery-work viz. Brass Kettles and Pans &c of all sorts. And these works were attended with no small success, till in the year 1720, they made a bubble of it; and then it ran the fate of all the Bubbles at that time". [ [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=A%20tour%20thro%20the%20Whole%20Island%20of%20Great%20Britain%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts "A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain"] (complete, but not proof-read), from Internet Archive, 6th edition, London: D. Browne [etc.] , 1762.]

ee also

*Islands in the River Thames

References

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