Corporation Island

It is uninhabited and heavily wooded, and was formerly known as Richmond Ait.

These were planted in the 1960s after Richmond Borough Council felled the London plane trees which had grown there.

[1] The island may have changed its shape due to alterations of the tidal flows in the Thames following the construction of the New London Bridge in 1829 followed by that of the Richmond half-tide lock.

Subsequently, tidal erosion has reduced them to the two tiny islets, or eyots, currently visible.

[5] One of the last photographs of The Beatles together was taken in 1969 of the band sitting on Corporation Island.