Pipers Island

The area is used for a boat hire and by larger vessels running hourly cruises during the Summer months.

A protective rail guards the lower and somewhat smaller upper decks of the restaurant, which are similar in design.

[1] Maps show it has clearly approximately kept its footprint measurement of 0.147 acres (590 m2) shortly before the year 1900, though the few rounded corners of its then-boathouse use have been neatly squared since the restaurant's opening.

[2] It is accessed on foot by a footbridge and staircase (also known together as a gangway) that connects the island to the centre of Caversham Bridge.

[6] 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.

Pipers Island from Caversham Bridge
Pipers Island showing channel separating it from the Caversham bank of the river