Islands in the River Thames

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This article lists the islands in the River Thames, England.

They were featured on the television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the London area, in an episode presented by Bill Oddie.

[edit] List of islands

The islands are listed in order encountered starting at the sea and proceeding upstream.

[edit] Lock islands

It should be noted that the construction of almost all locks on the Thames involve one or more artificial lock islands separating the lock from the weirs. Depending on the circumstances of the lock, these may have been created by building an artificial island in the river, or by digging an artificial canal to contain the lock and turning the land between that and the river into an island. In many cases, the lock island contains the lock keepers house and can be accessed across the lock gates. Such lock islands are only listed above if they have a specific name of their own, but all Thames locks are listed in Locks on the River Thames.

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