Phillimore Island
Address is taken from a point 382 yards away.
Phillimore Island is on the River Thames (below Oxford) just past the junction with The River Blackburn Navigation.
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.

| Thames - St Patrick's Stream Junction | 7½ furlongs | |
| Buck Ait | 6¼ furlongs | |
| Hallsmead Ait | 4¾ furlongs | |
| The Lynch | 3 furlongs | |
| Shiplake College Boathouses | 1½ furlongs | |
| Phillimore Island | ||
| Thames - Loddon Junction No 1 | ½ furlongs | |
| Shiplake Lock Weir Entrance | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Shiplake Lock | 3½ furlongs | |
| Shiplake Lock Weir Exit | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Thames - Loddon Junction No 2 | 4¾ furlongs | |
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Phillimore Island is an elongated island in the River Thames in the county of Berkshire, England, near the villages of Shiplake, Oxfordshire and Wargrave, Berkshire. It is on the reach above Shiplake Lock.
The island is named after the Phillimore family who were formerly the owners of Shiplake House, now Shiplake College, on the Oxfordshire bank.
Phillimore Island is quite centrally located in the River Thames.



![Autumn colours, Phillimore's Island. The upstream [south-west] end. by Christine Johnstone – 05 October 2013](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/71/31/3713107_a9bf3d62_120x120.jpg)

![Phillimore's Island. The southern (upstream) tip of the ait shown in [[2348357]], with Borough Marsh on the far bank. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/84/2348484_fdb0432f_120x120.jpg)
![Thames at Shiplake. The river and the Thames Path abreast of [[2348484]] and the branching off of Borough Lake on the far bank. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/84/2348489_99a39bea_120x120.jpg)




![Tree by the Thames. Opposite the scene in [[2348494]], this fine tree is above the Thames Path at Shiplake. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/85/2348534_6d27a679_120x120.jpg)


![Thames near Shiplake. The riples have been caused by the recent passage of Feral Lass - see [[2348450]]. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/84/2348460_1a6fc79d_120x120.jpg)







![Feral Lass on the Thames. The boat shown in [[2264240]] heading upstream past Shiplake, seen from the Thames Path a few metres past [[2348444]]. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/84/2348450_4f9da246_120x120.jpg)

![Narrowboat at Shiplake. This craft, moored beside the Thames Path a little downstream from the Shiplake boathouses, can be seen in [[2348357]]. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/84/2348444_4045ed2a_120x120.jpg)





