# Rod Eyot

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**Rod Eyot** or **Rod Ait** is an island in the [River Thames](/source/River_Thames) in England near [Henley-on-Thames](/source/Henley-on-Thames) on the reach above [Hambledon Lock](/source/Hambledon_Lock). It is close to [Mill Meadows](/source/Mill_Meadows,_Henley-on-Thames) and the [River and Rowing Museum](/source/River_and_Rowing_Museum).

## Overview

The island is populated with ten chalets, a brick cottage and formally tapered to a 200m widely spaced single-file line of trees, hence its name. The taper has been cut off and reduced; the soil on the main part of the island built up instead.[1] Rod Eyot is accessible only by boat. Mid-stream, river traffic passes one-way both sides, instructed by the [Environment Agency](/source/Environment_Agency) to keep to the right ([starboard](/source/Starboard)) bank. Rod Eyot homes have moorings and are privately owned. Foul waste and rubbish is taken away by boat to the appropriate stations at marinas.

Rod Eyot features in a pre-1900 painting owned by the [monarch](/source/Monarch_of_the_United_Kingdom) which portrays the river viewed from Wargrave Road when the island was the largest of a seasonally connected string of islands, lower-lying and uninhabited.

## Nearest amenities

Henley Town centre's closest public/amenity building is The Angel on the Bridge, followed by its church and the Red Lion Hotel. The bridge is 600 m from Rod Eyot.

## Islet within original island

A thin unpopulated islet downstream was part of the island,[1] towards, [Henley Bridge](/source/Henley_Bridge) known locally as Bird Island.

Until 1907, when the Town Council sold the chalet plots, the island was among those known nationally for a few decades as **Corporation Island**. The brick cottage had previously been occupied by a farrier who shoed horses which towed the river barges.

## See also

- [Islands in the River Thames](/source/Islands_in_the_River_Thames)

## References

1. ["Explore georeferenced maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121130162106/http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=51.5356&lon=-0.8961&layers=6&b=1). Archived from [the original](http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=51.5356&lon=-0.8961&layers=6&b=1) on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2017.

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