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[[File:RodEyot01.JPG|thumb|right|Rod Eyot from the Henley direction]]
[[File:RodEyot02.JPG|thumb|right|Rod Eyot from upstream]]
'''Rod Eyot''' or '''Rod Ait''' is an island in the [[River Thames]] in England near [[Henley-on-Thames]] on the reach above [[Hambledon Lock]]. It is close to [[Mill Meadows, Henley-on-Thames|Mill Meadows]] and the [[River and Rowing Museum]].

==Overview==
The island is populated with ten chalets, a brick cottage and formally tapered to a 200m widely spaced single-file line of trees, hence its name. The taper has been cut off and reduced; the soil on the main part of the island built up instead.<ref name=six_inch_1888>{{cite web | url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=51.5356&lon=-0.8961&layers=6&b=1 | title=Explore georeferenced maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland }}</ref> Rod Eyot is accessible only by boat. Mid-stream, river traffic passes one-way both sides, instructed by the [[Environment Agency]] to keep to the right ([[starboard]]) bank. Rod Eyot homes have moorings and are privately owned. Foul waste and rubbish is taken away by boat to the appropriate stations at marinas.

Rod Eyot features in a pre-1900 painting owned by the [[monarch of the United Kingdom|monarch]] which portrays the river viewed from Wargrave Road when the island was the largest of a seasonally connected string of islands, lower-lying and uninhabited.

==Nearest amenities==
Henley Town centre's closest public/amenity building is The Angel on the Bridge, followed by its church and the Red Lion Hotel. The bridge is 600&nbsp;m from Rod Eyot.

==Islet within original island==
A thin unpopulated islet downstream was part of the island,<ref name=six_inch_1888/> towards, [[Henley Bridge]] known locally as Bird Island.

Until 1907, when the Town Council sold the chalet plots, the island was among those known nationally for a few decades as '''Corporation Island'''. The brick cottage had previously been occupied by a farrier who shoed horses which towed the river barges.

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

==References==
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[[Category:Islands of Berkshire]]
[[Category:Islands of Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Islands of the River Thames]]


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