Poplar Island
Poplar Island is an island in the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The island is on the reach above Caversham Lock near Tilehurst, a suburb of Reading. Appletree Eyot is very close to it.Photo: Motmit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in the River Thames
- Also known as: “Poplar Island, River Thames”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Appletree Eyot and Tilehurst railway station.
Appletree Eyot
Islet
Photo: Motmit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Appletree Eyot is an island in the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The island is on the reach above Caversham Lock near Tilehurst, a suburb of Reading.Poplar Island is very close to it.
Tilehurst railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tilehurst railway station serves the suburb and village of Tilehurst, west of Reading, Berkshire, England. The station is on the extreme northern edge of Tilehurst and at a much lower level than most of that suburb.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norcot and Tilehurst.
Norcot
Suburb
Photo: Rosalind Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Norcot is an area of the village of Tilehurst on the outskirts of Reading, in the county of Berkshire, England. It extends up Norcot Hill from Norcot Junction on the Oxford Road towards the village centre of Tilehurst.
Tilehurst
Suburb
Photo: Michael Ford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tilehurst is a village in Berkshire, England, on the western outskirts of the Reading. The village is administratively split between Tilehurst Within in the Borough of Reading and Tilehurst Without in West Berkshire.
Purley on Thames
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purley on Thames, known locally as simply Purley, is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. Purley is centred 3 miles north-west of Reading, 1 mile east of Pangbourne, and 22 miles south-east of Oxford.
Poplar Island
- Categories: river island, locality, and landform
- Location: Mapledurham, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4688° or 51° 28′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.0222° or 1° 1′ 20″ westElevation
128 feet (39 metres)Open location code
9C3WFX9H+G4OpenStreetMap ID
way 55536598OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to German—“Poplar Island” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Poplar Island”
- Dutch: “Poplar Island, River Thames”
- French: “Poplar Island”
- German: “Poplar Island”
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