Hallsmead Ait
Address is taken from a point 326 yards away.
Hallsmead Ait is on the River Thames (below Oxford).
The River Thames (below Oxford) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on 17 September 1782. From a junction with The Lee and Stort Navigation at Cambridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Portsmouth. Expectations for coal traffic to Rochester were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the River Thames (below Oxford) were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Bassetlaw kept it open. The River Thames (below Oxford) was closed in 1888 when Perth Embankment collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Charles Wood made a model of Nuneaton Inclined plane out of matchsticks live on television.

| Sonning Lock | 1 mile, 6¾ furlongs | |
| Sonning Bridge | 1 mile, 4¾ furlongs | |
| Sonning Lock Weir Exit | 1 mile, 4¼ furlongs | |
| Thames - St Patrick's Stream Junction | 3 furlongs | |
| Buck Ait | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Hallsmead Ait | ||
| The Lynch | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Shiplake College Boathouses | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Phillimore Island | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Thames - Loddon Junction No 1 | 5 furlongs | |
| Shiplake Lock Weir Entrance | 6½ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Hallsmead Ait
Hallsmead Ait is an island in the River Thames in Berkshire, England. It is on the reach above Shiplake Lock near Lower Shiplake.
The island is large and triangular shaped, forming a pair with The Lynch, a similar shaped island. It is uninhabited and covered with a wide variety of trees. Although it is positioned towards the Oxfordshire bank of the river, it is actually in Berkshire.
Berry Brook starts close to the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake to the southwest, running northeast through the Thames floodplain, before joining the river at Hallsmead Ait.












![Stream joining the Thames at The Lynch. The stream channel has meandered along the floodplain for a kilometre, most of it followed by the parish boundary between Eye and Dunsden, and Shiplake. Across the river is the island called The Lynch; see also [[2348036]]. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/80/2348045_26a42956_120x120.jpg)



![Thames at The Lynch. The tree is on the second of two substantial islands in the river within less than 200 metres, The Lynch (see also [[2347898]]). by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/80/2348036_1821b6a2_120x120.jpg)



![Thames rounding The Lynch. A photo that places [[2348055]] in context, with the fallen trees and the hilltop village again visible, plus more of the river sweeping around the northwest side of the island on the right. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/83/2348346_3faad6b1_120x120.jpg)









