IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Church Island, STAINES-UPON-THAMES, TW18 4YE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Church Island, TW18 4YE by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (273 Images Found)
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Distance
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House on Church Island
On the downstream tip.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 17 Jan 2015
0.02 miles
3
Church Island
Home to a few choice riparian residences.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 17 Jan 2015
0.03 miles
4
The River Thames between Staines Bridge and Church Island
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 8 Aug 2018
0.03 miles
5
Church Island houses
St Mary's church can be seen through the trees in the background.
Image: © Robert Eva
Taken: 5 Jan 2017
0.03 miles
6
The River Thames by the north side of Church Island (2)
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 8 Aug 2018
0.03 miles
7
Footbridge to Church Island, Staines
The metal footbridge from Lammas Park to Church Island at Staines. Church Island has a handful of houses on it, a few boats moored around it and is connected to the north bank of the river by a footbridge. Many years ago barrels of beer from the Ashby Brewery were transported here by chain ferry, then taken across the island and loaded onto boats. The old chain ferry was still moored to the north side of the island, although looking a bit sorry for itself.
The Thames stream between the Middlesex bank and the island provided a sheltered backwater for sports up to the late 1920s: a place for small boys to fish with home-made rods; a base for Staines & District Swimming Club; where people could hire small rowing crafts from John Tims’ Boatyard, and where the popular annual Staines & Egham Juvenile Regatta was held between 1906 and 1931.
In the early 1900s the Staines Swimming Club had its headquarters on Church Island, but between the wars the club moved their base from the island to The Lammas when it became a public land again.
Staines' Roman name was Ad Pontes, meaning "by the bridges". Some sources speculate the bridges may well have consisted of one from the north bank of the River Thames to an island and another from the island to the south bank.
Image: © Sean Davis
Taken: 16 Aug 2012
0.03 miles
8
Bridge and boat at Church Island, Staines
The main channel of the Thames passes south of the island.
Image: © David Martin
Taken: 30 Jan 2023
0.04 miles
9
Church Island, Staines
A small island off the north bank of the Thames to the west of Staines
Image: © Alan Hunt
Taken: 14 Mar 2013
0.04 miles
