River Thames New Cut, Ham Island
Introduction
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River Thames New Cut, Ham Island
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.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.467728
Longitude
-0.574428