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[[Image:HamptonSailingClub.JPG|right|thumb|Hampton Sailing Club |
[[Image:HamptonSailingClub.JPG|right|thumb|Hampton Sailing Club with boat landing stages occupies all of Benn's Island above [[Molesey Lock]]]] |
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'''Benn's Island''', previously named '''Church Eyot''', '''Kember’s Eyot''' and sometimes referred to as '''Benn's Ait''',<ref name="bennsait">{{cite web |url=http://www.marketingreinforcements.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index_bennsait.html |title=Benn's Ait |accessdate=2009-12-10 |
'''Benn's Island''', previously named '''Church Eyot''', '''Kember’s Eyot''' and sometimes referred to as '''Benn's Ait''',<ref name="bennsait">{{cite web |url=http://www.marketingreinforcements.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index_bennsait.html |title=Benn's Ait |accessdate=2009-12-10}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|This was called Church Eyot, then Kember’s Eyot around 1700, but now named after the family that owned Benn’s Boatyard on the Middlesex bank, which was demolished in 1947.<ref name="bennsait"/>|group= n}} is a private and very small [[ait]] (island) close to the Middlesex bank of the [[River Thames]] at [[Hampton, London|Hampton]], in the [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]] in [[England]], on the reach above [[Molesey Lock]]. The water between the island and the Middlesex bank is shallow, but navigable with care to small vessels. |
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Since 1945 it has been leased by [[Hampton Sailing Club]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hamptonsailingclub.com/club.htm |title=Hampton Sailing Club |accessdate=2008-12-09 |
In the 19th century the island was used by the then Thames Valley Sailing Club, currently based on [[Sunbury Lock Ait]], whose then headquarters were a houseboat moored at Benn's Island and which was destroyed by fire in 1900.<ref name="bennsait" /><ref>{{cite web |quote=Next comes " The Thames Valley Sailing. Club," at Hampton-on-Thames, with a course, ten rounds of which make up four miles, from a buoy opposite the little Club Island |url=http://www.thamessailingclub.co.uk |title=Boat Sailing on the Upper Thames |last=Jackson |first=W F |accessdate=2008-12-10 |format=pdf}}</ref> Since 1945 it has been leased by [[Hampton Sailing Club]].<ref name=hsc>{{cite web |url=http://www.hamptonsailingclub.com/club.htm |title=Hampton Sailing Club |accessdate=2008-12-09}}</ref> During 1962 the clubhouse was built on the piles at Benn’s Island.<ref name=hsc/> Extensive building works and piling make any casual observer believe that the island is wholly artificial, but these are substantial extensions. |
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The clubhouse is linked to Benn's Alley a narrow [[wikt:slipway|slipway]] on the northern bank by a manually operated [[pedestrian]] [[cable ferry|chain ferry]] at the downstream end. [[Hampton Ferry (River Thames)|Hampton Ferry]] connecting to [[Molesey]] operates to the east of the island using a separate set of steps or slipway and directly facing to St Mary's Church.<ref>[http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/mapsearch.aspx [[Ordnance Survey]] map, courtesy of [[English Heritage]]]</ref> |
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It had been used previously by another sailing club, the then Thames Valley Sailing Club, whose headquarters were a houseboat moored there and which was destroyed by fire in 1900.<ref name="bennsait" /><ref>{{cite web |quote=Next comes " The Thames Valley Sailing. Club," at Hampton-on-Thames, with a course, ten rounds of which make up four miles, from a buoy opposite the little Club Island |url=http://www.thamessailingclub.co.uk/CobraManagedFiles/Our_History.pdf |title=Boat Sailing on the Upper Thames |last=Jackson |first=W F |accessdate=2008-12-10 |format=pdf}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> |
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The island is linked to the Middlesex bank by a manually operated [[pedestrian]] [[cable ferry|chain ferry]] at the downstream end. |
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Revision as of 20:44, 20 November 2012
Benn's Island, previously named Church Eyot, Kember’s Eyot and sometimes referred to as Benn's Ait,[1][n 1] is a private and very small ait (island) close to the Middlesex bank of the River Thames at Hampton, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in England, on the reach above Molesey Lock. The water between the island and the Middlesex bank is shallow, but navigable with care to small vessels.
In the 19th century the island was used by the then Thames Valley Sailing Club, currently based on Sunbury Lock Ait, whose then headquarters were a houseboat moored at Benn's Island and which was destroyed by fire in 1900.[1][2] Since 1945 it has been leased by Hampton Sailing Club.[3] During 1962 the clubhouse was built on the piles at Benn’s Island.[3] Extensive building works and piling make any casual observer believe that the island is wholly artificial, but these are substantial extensions.
The clubhouse is linked to Benn's Alley a narrow slipway on the northern bank by a manually operated pedestrian chain ferry at the downstream end. Hampton Ferry connecting to Molesey operates to the east of the island using a separate set of steps or slipway and directly facing to St Mary's Church.[4]
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Notes and References
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- References
- ^ a b c "Benn's Ait". Retrieved 2009-12-10.
- ^ Jackson, W F. "Boat Sailing on the Upper Thames" (pdf). Retrieved 2008-12-10.
Next comes " The Thames Valley Sailing. Club," at Hampton-on-Thames, with a course, ten rounds of which make up four miles, from a buoy opposite the little Club Island
- ^ a b "Hampton Sailing Club". Retrieved 2008-12-09.
- ^ Ordnance Survey map, courtesy of English Heritage