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Guards Club Island, also known as Bucks Ait or bucks' eyot is an island in the River Thames connected by footbridge by to Maidenhead, Berkshire accommodating a pier adjoining the Sounding Arch part of the railway bridge which was built in 1838 to designs by Brunel. The thin small island is connected to Guards Club Park by a low cast-iron and wood footbridge which blocks the near channel (backwater) to boat navigation apart from kayaks. The island gets its alternative name from eel bucks[1] from which the footbridge was adapted in 1865 to allow access to its Guards Club Boathouse (since demolished).

Guards Club Island (upstream side) showing Guards Club Island Bridge and Guards Club Park to the right
Guards Club Island (upstream side) showing Guards Club Island Bridge and Guards Club Park to the right
Guards Club Island (downstream side) and Maidenhead Railway Bridge with Maidenhead Bridge beyond
Guards Club Island (downstream side) and Maidenhead Railway Bridge with Maidenhead Bridge beyond
Guards Club Island
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River Thames
Fleet River
A3094 road bridge
weir
Hedsor Wharf
weir
bridges
Cookham Lock
Formosa Island
Strand Water
White Brook
Maidenhead Ditch
Mill Race
Kayaking
Ray Mill
Boulter's Lock
Taplow mill
Jubilee River --
-- (to Old Windsor Lock)
Ray Mill Road West
Grass Eyot
Bridge Eyot
Moor Cut
A4 Bath Road
High St.(Chapel Arches)
York Road
Guards Club Island
Great Western Main Line
Maidenhead Railway Bridge
Forlease Road
York Stream
Weir and boat rollers
(proposed Green Lane lock)
St Michael's Church, Bray
Bray Cut
Headpile Eyot
Bray Lock, island and weir
Bray Mill
The Cut, Berkshire
M4 Motorway
The Cut
Bray marina
River Thames

The island is special status part of Guards Club Park (a public open space). Access to the island, a nesting site for water fowl, is restricted between December and June.


References


  1. Cove-Smith, Chris (2006). The River Thames Book. Imray Laurie Norie and Wilson. ISBN 0-85288-892-9.



See also


Next island upstream River Thames Next island downstream
Bridge Eyot Guards Club Island Headpile Eyot


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[de] Guards Club Island

Guards Club Island, auch Bucks Ait genannt, ist eine Insel in der Themse bei Maidenhead, Berkshire. Die Insel ist mit dem Festland am Guards Club Park durch eine niedrige Fußgängerbrücke aus Gusseisen und Holz verbunden, die die Durchfahrt verhindert. Die Insel bekommt ihren Alternativnamen durch die zu einer Kette verbundenen Aalreusen an deren Stelle 1865 die Brücke errichtet wurde, um Zugang zum nicht mehr existierenden Bootshaus des Guards Clubs zu ermöglichen.[1]
- [en] Guards Club Island



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