Chiswick Eyot

Chiswick Eyot on the River Thames London, looking upstream

Channel between Chiswick Eyot and Chiswick Mall on the River Thames London, looking downstream at low tide (left) and high tide (right)

Chiswick Eyot ( /ˈtʃɪzɨk ˈeɪt/) is a small, narrow, uninhabited ait (island) in the River Thames. It is on the Tideway near Chiswick, in the Borough of Hounslow, London, England, and has an area of 1.1 hectares (2.7 acres).

The island is beside The Championship Course and is a well-known landmark in the commentary on The Boat Race. There is a green pole on one end of the island, which is used as a landmark by rowers. Small craft can pass between the island and the Chiswick Mall on the Middlesex bank for about two hours at high tide, but the small channel is generally impassable otherwise, and at low tide it is possible to walk across it to the island.

Chiswick Eyot was formerly used for the growing of grass and osiers (basket willows, used for basketry, furniture, cart-making, as well as cattle fodder). It has been much eroded over time.

The London Borough of Hounslow declared the island a Local Nature Reserve of Greater London in 1993.

See also

• Islands in the River Thames

References

• Cornish, C J (1902). The naturalist on the Thames. London: Seeley. p. 68. OCLC 3251979. http://explorion.net/c.j.cornish-naturalist-thames/page-68.html. 
• "Kew to Wandsworth". Tideway. John Kennett. Archived from the original on 2007-02-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20070207055242/http://www.thames-tideway.org/section2.shtm. Retrieved 2009-01-05. 

External links

• Chiswick's tides on the Thames

Next island upstream	River Thames	Next island downstream
Oliver's Island	Chiswick Eyot	Frog Island