Ham Island Bridge, River Thames New Cut
Introduction
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Ham Island Bridge, River Thames New Cut
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 18 Jul 2014
Ham Island is an inhabited man-made island of roughly 50 hectares (125 acres) in the River Thames at Old Windsor. It was a peninsula partly surrounded by a meander until 1822, when a channel of the river was made, the New Cut, to build Old Windsor Lock at its downstream end, a weir along the mainstream and smaller weir at the end of the cut. Accordingly the distance in navigation has been cut to around one third. The bridge is private, as is all of Ham Island, with no public access.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.466445
Longitude
-0.572452