Romney Island
Map showing the location of Romney Island within Berkshire.
Romney Island is an island in the River Thames in England connected to Romney Lock, at Windsor, Berkshire. It is a long thin island with trees and scrub, with the upstream end in Windsor and the downstream end almost at Black Potts.
The island has always been a popular place for angling and Isaak Walton used to fish from here.[1] The island separates the weir stream from the navigation channel to the lock. Proposals to build a hydro scheme at the weir dated from 2004, with various revised schemes put forward since then.[2] A revised scheme, using Archimedes screws, went ahead in 2011 and began generating power in 2013.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ Paul Goldsack River Thames: In the Footsteps of the Famous English Heritage/Bradt 2003
- ^ Proposals for hydro power scheme
- ^ "The Queen goes green: hydroelectric turbines arrive at Windsor Castle". The Daily Telegraph. 8 September 2011.
- ^ "Windsor Castle running on Thames hydropower". BBC News. 5 November 2013.