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[[Image:River_Thames_from_Windsor_Bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1220338.jpg|thumb|The ait is the small piece of land on the right hand side of this photograph from non-motorised Windsor Bridge]]
'''Firework Ait''' is an islet in the [[River Thames]] in England on the reach above [[Romney Lock]] known as the [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] and Eton reach, [[Berkshire]].  It is the smallest island on the Thames with an official map-published name.

==Status==
The island is the smallest on the Thames with an official map-published name and is in the middle of a widely separated series of three close to the Windsor (right) bank. It is approximately 100&nbsp;metres above [[Windsor Bridge]].<ref>1000 square feet approximately. This patch of fewer than six trees is too small to be shown on most maps of the broad Windsor and Eton area.</ref> The facing riverside road in restrictive sections as to motorized traffic provides a promenade and cycle way between the heart of the town centre, a leisure centre and adjoining Alexandra Gardens, a park.

==History==
An account from the 1840s of life at Eton hypothesises that [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] when at [[Eton College|Eton]] in 1805 would have taken his [[Thames skiff|skiff]] across to the "eyot which then served [[history of fireworks|for fireworks]]".<ref name='Coleridge'>{{cite book | last = Coleridge | first = Arthur Duke | title = Eton in the Forties by An Old Colleger | publisher = Richard Bentley | date = 1896 | location = London | pages = 107| url = https://archive.org/stream/etoninforties00coleuoft }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Islands in the River Thames]]
*[[River island]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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{{River item line|upstream=[[Deadwater Ait|Barry Avenue (or unnamed) island and Deadwater Ait]]
|downstream=[[Cutlers Ait]]}}
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[[Category:Islands of Berkshire]]
[[Category:Islands of the River Thames]]
[[Category:Windsor, Berkshire]]