Romney Island
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Map showing the location of Romney Island within Berkshire.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. Proposals to build a hydro scheme at the weir dated from 2004, with various revised schemes put forward since then.[2] A revised scheme, using Archimedes screws, went ahead in 2011 and began generating power in 2013.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ Paul Goldsack River Thames: In the Footsteps of the Famous English Heritage/Bradt 2003
- ^ Proposals for hydro power scheme
- ^ "The Queen goes green: hydroelectric turbines arrive at Windsor Castle". The Daily Telegraph. 8 September 2011.
- ^ "Windsor Castle running on Thames hydropower". BBC News. 5 November 2013.
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51°29′26″N 0°36′18″W / 51.4905°N 0.6049°W / 51.4905; -0.6049