Hamhaugh Island

The garden-lined southern horseshoe curve of the island is mapped as Hamhaugh Point, and being its only tapered side becomes the narrowest width.

A ferry operates from Shepperton Lock's downstream side to the northern point of Weybridge and links the Thames Path National Trail.

The island, apart from landings (boats' hardstanding) and a patch of woodland with a path running through it along the north side, is residential, consisting of 46 houses and a communal green.

The island was created and soon thereafter slightly reduced to create a smaller island, Lock Island, to the north, which was also part of the mainland — this creation occurred after the fixing of most non-urban parish boundaries, pre-1700, and explains why given the wide channel dug to its north (almost equal width of the widest river course to all other sides), it stayed part of the parish of Shepperton.

"Breaches in the banks at Stadbury (Hamhaugh Island) were repaired in the 18th century by the City of London authorities, who were responsible for...[the river downstream of the north-west of Staines].

A weir across the Thames, passing Hamhaugh Island (left)