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Islands in the River Thames

Most of the islands are natural, but a few were created by rerouting of the navigation channel. Many Thames islands are called "Aits" or "Eyots". Aits are usually longer thinner islands that have built up through an accumulation of silt.

• Isle of Sheppey
• Two Tree Island
• Canvey Island
• Lower Horse Island
• Frog Island, Rainham
• Chiswick Eyot, Chiswick
• Oliver's Island, Kew
• Brentford Ait, Brentford
• Lot's Ait, Brentford
• Isleworth Ait, Isleworth
• Corporation Island, Richmond
• Glover's Island, Twickenham
• Eel Pie Island, Twickenham
• Swan Island, Twickenham
• Trowlock Island, Teddington
• Steven's Eyot, Kingston upon Thames
• Raven's Ait, Kingston upon Thames/Surbiton
• Boyle Farm Island, Thames Ditton
• Thames Ditton Island, Thames Ditton
• Ash Island, East Molesey
• Tagg's Island, Hampton Court
• Garrick's Ait, Hampton
• Platts Eyot, Hampton
• Grand Junction Isle, Sunbury
• Sunbury Court Island, Sunbury
• Rivermead Island, Sunbury
• Sunbury Lock Ait, Walton on Thames
• Wheatley's Ait (Wheatleys Eyot), Lower Sunbury
• Desborough Island, Shepperton
• D'Oyly Carte Island, Weybridge
• Lock Island, Shepperton
• Hamhaugh Island, Shepperton
• Pharaoh's Island
• Dumsey Eyot
• Penton Hook Island, Laleham
• Truss's Island
• Church Island, Staines
• Hollyhock Island, Staines
• Holm Island, Staines
• The Island, Hythe End
• Magna Carta Island, Runnymede
• Pats Croft Eyot, Runnymede
• Friary Island, Wraysbury
• Friday Island
• Ham Island, Old Windsor
• Nickcroft Ait
• Sumptermead Ait, Datchet
• Romney Island, Windsor
• Cutlers Ait, Windsor
• Firework Ait, Windsor
• Deadwater Ait, Windsor
• Baths Island, Eton Wick
• Bush Ait, Windsor
• Queen's Eyot, Dorney
• Monkey Island, Bray
• Pigeonhill Eyot
• Headpile Eyot, Bray
• Guards Club Island aka Bucks Ait, Maidenhead
• Bridge Eyot, Maidenhead
• Grass Eyot, Maidenhead
• Ray Mill Island, Maidenhead
• Boulters Island, Maidenhead
• Glen Island, Maidenhead
• Bavin's Gulls aka Sloe Grove Islands, Maidenhead
• Formosa Island, Cookham
• Gibraltar Islands,Marlow
• Temple Mill Island, Hurley
• Frog Mill Ait
• Black Boy Island
• Magpie Island
• Temple Island, Henley-on-Thames
• Rod Eyot, Henley-on-Thames
• Ferry Eyot, Wargrave
• Poplar Eyot, Wargrave
• Handbuck Eyot, Wargrave
• Phillimore Island, Shiplake
• The Lynch, Lower Shiplake
• Hallsmead Ait
• Buck Ait
• Sonning Eye (=Eyot), Sonning
• View Island, Reading
• De Bohun Island, Reading
• Fry's Island, Reading (sometimes known as De Montfort Island)
• Pipers Island, Reading
• St Mary's Island, Reading
• Appletree Eyot, Tilehurst
• Poplar Island, Tilehurst
• Nag's Head Island, Abingdon
• Andersey Island, Abingdon
• Lock Wood Island, Nuneham Courtenay
• Fiddler's Elbow, Sandford-on-Thames
• Rose Isle, Kennington
• Osney Island, Oxford
• Fiddler's Island, Oxford

U.K. Mortgage Report sees a shortage of mortgage finance into 2010
A report commissioned by Alistair Darling, chancellor, from Sir James Crosby, former chairman of HBOS, the bank, said there was no silver bullet that would revive the wholesale mortgage market, reduce borrowing costs and take the pressure off the housing market.

U.K. Mortgage Approvals Decline to Lowest Level Since 1999 
Banks and Building Societies granted 36,000 loans for house purchase, compared with 41,000 in May, the Bank of England said in London today. The result was the lowest since comparable data began nine years ago. House prices fell by the most in at least seven years in July, pushing the economy closer to a recession.

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Evening Standard

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Property Wire

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