Swan Island
Swan Island is a private mooring island in the Thames at Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England. It is on the Tideway about 3⁄4 mile north of and thus below Teddington Lock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in River Thames
- Also known as: “Swan Island, London”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Radnor Gardens and Thames Young Mariners.
Radnor Gardens
Park
Photo: KenBailey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Radnor Gardens is a small public riverside garden and recreation ground in Strawberry Hill, south of Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, offering picturesque views.
Thames Young Mariners
Photo: DottyThunderbolt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thames Young Mariners is a 25-acre area of land situated in Ham. It includes the Thames Young Mariners Base Lagoon, which is a calm 10-acre lake connected to the River Thames by a lock.
Strawberry Hill House
House
Photo: Chiswick Chap, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham, London, built by Horace Walpole from 1749 onward. It is the prototypical example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strawberry Hill and Twickenham.
Strawberry Hill
Suburb
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Strawberry Hill is an area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Twickenham. It is a suburban development situated 10.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross.
Twickenham
Town
Twickenham is a suburban district of London, England, on the River Thames 9.9 miles southwest of Charing Cross. Historically in Middlesex, since 1965 it has formed part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, whose administrative headquarters are in the area.
Teddington Lock
Locality
Photo: Mike Ricard, CC BY 2.0.
Teddington Lock is a complex of three locks and a weir on the River Thames between Ham and Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England.
Swan Island
- Categories: river island, locality, and landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.43918° or 51° 26′ 21″ northLongitude
-0.33108° or 0° 19′ 52″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9C3XCMQ9+MHOpenStreetMap ID
way 505880364OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Swan Island” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Swan Island”
- Cebuano: “Swan Island (pulo sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Swan Island”
- Dutch: “Swan Island, London”
- Dutch: “Swan Island”
- French: “Swan Island”
- German: “Swan Island”
- Swedish: “Swan Island, England”
- Swedish: “Swan Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Swan Island and Strawberry Hill Bowling Club.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Swan Island”. Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.