Pipers Island, or Piper's Island, is the third smallest map-named island in the River Thames, in England. It is on the Reading, Berkshire reach the head of water above Caversham Lock. It is toward the edge of the central urban area of the town of Reading and connected by a gangway to Caversham Bridge, a road bridge that links that town to its left bank suburb of Caversham.
Use Pipers Island has been hard-landscaped into a public house and restaurant, The Island, the surrounding decking of which is shared for restaurant use and moorings of boats, used for a boat hire and larger vessels running hourly cruises during the Summer months. The banks of the island are today sheet metal topped with wooden decking. A protective rail guards the lower and somewhat smaller upper decks of the restaurant which are similar in design.
Access The ait, the third smallest of those named on official maps of the Thames, which has approximately retained its 100-year footprint measurement of , though the few rounded corners squared since,OS 25-inch-to-mile map of Oxfordshire of 1897, sheets LIV.5, LVI.13, LVI.14 and LVI1.16 published 1898 is accessed on foot by a footbridge and staircase that connects the island to the centre of Caversham Bridge.
Location The ait is toward the edge of the central urban area of the town of Reading and connected by a gangway attached to the middle of the downstream stone balustrade of Caversham Bridge, a road bridge that links that town to its left bank suburb of Caversham, its closer bank.
See also Islands in the River Thames
References
External links
Island Bar and Restaurant web site