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Dist:0.2km north<br/>The M4 bridge, opened about 1973, has a massive 25'6" air draft for boats. A mixute of craft here, from a fairly large cruiser to scullers.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Taken from the towpath which is at the bottom of the garden of this house in Dorney Reach.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A view looking westwards from the Marsh Lane overbridge.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km north<br/>View from the towpath.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A man-made island, created from London's rubbish. Now contains a select hotel and conference centre.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Monkey Island is a narrow island in the Thames, and can be reached only by footbridge or boat. It became firm ground only when rubble was dumped following the great fire of London in 1666. The 3rd Duke of Marlborough bought it in 1723, and since then there have been pleasure buildings, lawns, and latterly this hotel. See also Berkshire History website http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/monkey_island.html.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Monkey Island is the area bordered by the M4, the Thames and the lakes. Dorney Reach is the built-up area on the left. This was taken from a Vickers Viscount during a flight in 1996 to commemorate the type's retirement from commercial service.
©Stephen Williams
Dist:0.5km north<br/>There was work in progress by the towpath, which was closed temporarily.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Viewed from downstream, with Bray Weir to the left. Buckinghamshire on the right bank and Berkshire on the left, as viewed from the photographer.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.6km north<br/>A view taken looking downstream. Full details of the man-made Jubilee River, designed to provide flood protection to property in Maidenhead, Windsor, and Eton, can be found on the Environment Agency's website http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/recreation/345623/631029/346131/348128/349190/349293/?lang=_e&theme=&region=&subject=&searchfor=#
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km west<br/>The lock is bisected by the grid line, but the foreground and the top gates are in this square. Cyclists are expected to perform miracles.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Viewed from the Old Mill Lane overbridge.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km east<br/>A view looking north towards the bridge carrying the M4 motorway over the Jubilee River. Full details of the man-made Jubilee River, designed to provide flood protection to property in Maidenhead, Windsor, and Eton, can be found on the Environment Agency's website http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/recreation/345623/631029/346131/348128/349190/349293/?lang=_e&theme=&region=&subject=&searchfor=#
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km south<br/>This was an attempt to repeat my photograph from two years earlier [[157178]]. The boundary between the Royal County of Berkshire (on the left) and the not so royal county of Buckinghamshire (on the right) runs along the centre of the river here and then up the channel on the right. The protruding land in the middle is the downstream tip of Monkey Island.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.8km south<br/>Viewed looking upstream from the Summerleaze footbridge towards Dorney Reach with the southern tip of Monkey Island on the left.
©Nigel Cox

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