Pharaoh's Island, River Thames

Tory MP and High Court Judge Sir Cyril Atkinson[6] built the first house on the island in 1903 and named it Sphinx due to his interest in Egyptology.

[9] The property names are, clockwise, starting in the west:[10] Download coordinates as: As of May 2020, Sphinx has fetched the highest cost, £1.318 million.

[11] In January 2011, a small dinghy ferrying people from the island capsized with the loss of two lives.

The fatalities were named as university academic Dr Rex Walford OBE,[12] and record producer Keith Lowde.

[13] As the home of his family, the island was the setting for director John Boorman's two semi-autobiographical films: Hope and Glory in 1987 and Queen and Country in 2014.