Steven's Eyot

Steven's Eyot is {{convert|660|m|yd|abbr=on}} below Kingston Railway Bridge and its southern tip is opposite the north of the boating area of Kingston Rowing Club shared by Tiffin School Boat Club on the east, Surrey, bank in Canbury Gardens.{{cite web |url=http://www.gridreferencefinder.com |title=Grid reference Finder measurement tools |accessdate=21 November 2012}} On the west, Middlesex, bank are the houses, meadows, apartments and three boathouses of Broom Park, Teddington. A very much smaller eyot to its north leads the Ordnance Survey to record the island as a pair, "Steven's Eyots".{{cite map |url=http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/mapsearch.aspx |title=The National Heritage List for England - Map Search|publisher=Ordnance Survey|accessdate=21 November 2012}} courtesy of English Heritage

The Ordnance Survey map of 1875 shows that the eyot comprised four islets and on the map of 1896 it is marked as Tathim's island.{{cite map |url=http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html |publisher=Ordnance Survey |title=London |year=1896 |scale=1 : 10,560 |access-date=22 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430134621/http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html |archive-date=30 April 2012 |df=dmy-all }} Stevens was the family name of a boatman who lived in a cottage that stood in what became Canbury Gardens.{{cite news |first=June |last=Samson |url= http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/10474662.June_Sampson__Bringing_a_paronamic_treasure_of_River_Thames_back_to_life/ |title=Bringing a panoramic treasure of River Thames back to life | newspaper=This is Local London |date=11 June 2013 |accessdate=22 July 2013}} The present name was in use on the 1913 Ordnance Survey map. The island now forms part of a conservation area.{{cite web |url=http://www.kingston.gov.uk/consultant_report_1_.pdf |title=Conservation Area Appraisal - Canbury Gardens - for Kingston Upon Thames Borough Council |author=CAP Studios |publisher=Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames |date=22 November 2002}}

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River traffic is directed to the Middlesex side because of posts and mooring on the Surrey side (east here).{{cite web |url=http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk |title=Environment Agency | accessdate=21 November 2012}} The island is the base of the Small Boat Club (SBC), a not-for-profit motorboats club formed in 1953 run by the members for the members, using its carved out basin in the north and reinforced moorings on all sides. The SBC has leased the island from the Thames Conservancy (now the Environment Agency) since 1960, giving only Small Boat Club members the right to permanent mooring on the island. Kingston Council granted the SBC permission to erect and have exclusive rights a jetty on the Surrey bank towpath, operational since May 1984.{{cite web |url=http://www.smallboatclub.co.uk/history.html |title=Celebrating its Diamond Jubilee 60th Year! |publisher=The Small Boats Club |access-date=22 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801000306/http://smallboatclub.co.uk/history.html |archive-date=1 August 2013 |df=dmy-all }}

• Canbury Gardens
• Islands in the River Thames

:*Islands in the River Thames listed in order upstream from the sea.

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