place

Handbuck Eyot

Berkshire geography stubsIslands of BerkshireIslands of OxfordshireIslands of the River ThamesOxfordshire geography stubs
Use British English from June 2017
Handbuck Ait
Handbuck Ait

Handbuck Eyot or Handbuck Ait is a thin, wooded island in the River Thames in England towards the eastern edge of the villages of Shiplake, Oxfordshire. It is on the reach above Marsh Lock.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Handbuck Eyot (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Handbuck Eyot
Bolney Road, South Oxfordshire

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Handbuck EyotContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 51.5154 ° E -0.8808 °
placeShow on map

Address

Bolney Road
RG9 3NT South Oxfordshire
England, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

Handbuck Ait
Handbuck Ait
Share experience

Nearby Places

Shiplake railway station
Shiplake railway station

Shiplake railway station is a railway station in the village of Lower Shiplake (formerly Lashbrook) in Oxfordshire, England. The station is on the Henley-on-Thames branch line that links the towns of Henley-on-Thames and Twyford. It is 2 miles 60 chains (4.4 km) down the line from Twyford and 33 miles 61 chains (54.3 km) measured from London Paddington. It is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway.The station has a single platform, which is used by trains in both directions. There is a 50-space car park, but no station building other than a simple shelter. The station is unmanned, and tickets must be purchased on the train.The station was built in the village of Lashbrook in 1857, but named for the main village of Shiplake. The village of Shiplake, with the parish Church and grand manor houses of Shiplake Court and Shiplake House is actually over a mile away to the south of Shiplake Station. Victorian developers and their commuting commercial customers however then chose to build new houses close to the station, and the hamlet of Lashbrook grew rapidly and eventually changed its name to Lower Shiplake in the early twentieth century. In June 1914, it is said suffragettes were intending to burn Shiplake Church, but on realising it was such a distance from the station of the same name, burned Wargrave Church down instead. A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1956 to 1963.