Romney Island
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Romney Island is an island in the River Thames in England connected to Romney Lock, at Windsor, Berkshire. It is a long thin island with trees and scrub, with the upstream end in Windsor and the downstream end almost at Black Potts.
The island has always been a popular place for angling and Isaak Walton used to fish from here.[1] The island separates the weir stream from the navigation channel to the lock. There are proposals to build a hydro scheme at the weir here. They appeared to have been abandoned in February 2008 but a revised proposal was put forward in May 2008.)[2].
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[edit] References
- ^ Paul Goldsack River Thames: In the Footsteps of the Famous English Heritage/Bradt 2003
- ^ Proposals for hydro power scheme
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