Desborough Island
Desborough Island is a 112-acre manmade island in the River Thames on the reach above Sunbury Lock in Surrey, England. It was formed in the 1930s by the digging of a channel – the Desborough Cut – by the Thames Conservancy as a meander cutoff of narrow width on the right bank.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 feet (10 metres)
- Description: island in the River Thames
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Places in the Area
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Desborough Island
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Latitude
51.38608° or 51° 23′ 10″ north
Longitude
-0.4438° or 0° 26′ 38″ west
Open location code
9C3X9HP4+CF
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OpenStreetMap feature
place = island
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to German—“Desborough Island” goes by many names.
Localities in the Area
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