Chiswick Eyot

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Chiswick Eyot is a small, uninhabited island in the River Thames. It is located in London's Chiswick in the southwestern district London Borough of Hounslow.

General

The approximately 1.1 -acre island has its name from the Anglo-Saxon word for island, Eyot or Ait or Ayt, the term was first used for small islands along the Thames frequently. It is, in the form of ship similar, parallel to the northern Themeseufer along Chiswick Mall. The island is known as rowers, she's milestone at the annual Boat Race. The small channel between Chiswick Mall and the island falls partly dry at low water of the Thames, so that the island can be reached on foot from the bank of the Thames.

The nearest London Underground stations are Stamford Brook and Ravenscourt Park on the District Line.

Earlier use

The island was formerly known for the abundance of fish at this point of the River Thames, the last salmon in the Thames in 1812 caught near the island.

The growing on the island of grass was mowed in the time when cows were still held in the London Borough of care of the animals.

The pastures inventory of the island was used in earlier times for making fish baskets.

The sighting of a porpoise at the island is known from the year 1895.

Endangering

The island is currently losing its surface, such as 6 meters in width in recent years. The reason for this are the caves and tunnels, which is dragged from one that originally lived in Asia crab, the Chinese mitten crab are created. The animals thus undermine especially in the area of the reed stand the ground, so that at these points by the vertical flow action of the tides of the reason is washed away.

The island was declared a National Reserve Local 1993.