Osney Backwater
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Osney Backwater
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 9 May 2010
The Thames Navigation is very narrow going by Osney. In fact some people ask if it's the Oxford Canal, which actually starts a short way upstream. The reason for this is that the Thames itself divides up among a number of backwaters, mill streams and side channels on its way through Oxford. This is one of those channels, quite a short one in this case. It rejoins the Thames below Osney Lock via the Environment Agency boatyard which is just behind me. Stop me if you've heard this before, but the suffix "ey" in a place name denotes that it is, or was, an island. So round here we have Osney, Binsey, Botley, Hinksey and so forth. The area is at risk from floods.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.749824
Longitude
-1.274225