Pipers Island
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Pipers Island, or Piper's Island, is the third-smallest map-named island in the River Thames, in England. It is on the Reading, Berkshire reach (the head of water above Caversham Lock). It is toward the edge of the central urban area of the town of Reading and connected by a gangway to Caversham Bridge, a road and pedestrian bridge that links that town to its left bank suburb of Caversham.
Use
Pipers Island has been hard-landscaped into a public house and restaurant, The Island, the surrounding decking of which is shared for restaurant use and moorings for boats. The area is used for a boat hire and by larger vessels running hourly cruises during the Summer months. The banks of the island are today sheet metal topped with wooden decking. A protective rail guards the lower and somewhat smaller upper decks of the restaurant, which are similar in design.
Access
The ait is the third-smallest of those named on official maps of the Thames.[1] Maps show it has clearly approximately kept its footprint measurement of Script error: No such module "convert". shortly before the year 1900, though the few rounded corners of its then-boathouse use have been neatly squared since the restaurant's opening.[2] It is accessed on foot by a footbridge and staircase (also known together as a gangway) that connects the island to the centre of Caversham Bridge. The smallest island with vehicular access on the river is almost double its size, Swan Island, London which is in Twickenham.[3][4][5]
Family owners within the Livery Company of Watermen and Lightermen
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Location
The ait is toward the edge of the central urban area of the town of Reading and connected by a gangway attached to the middle of the downstream stone balustrade of Caversham Bridge, a road bridge that links that town to its left bank suburb of Caversham, its closer bank.[7]
See also
References
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- ↑ See List of islands in the River Thames
- ↑ OS 25-inch-to-mile map of Oxfordshire of 1897, sheets LIV.5, LVI.13, LVI.14 and LVI1.16 published 1898
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- ↑ a b c A history of Eton College, 1440-1884, 1889, Sir H. C. Maxwell-Lyte https://archive.org/details/historyofetoncol00maxwuoft
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