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The island is the smallest on the Thames with an official map-published name and is in the middle of a widely separated series of three close to the
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1000 square feet approximately. This patch of fewer than six trees is too small to be shown on most maps of the broad
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The ait is the small piece of land on the right hand side of this photograph from non-motorised
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An account from the 1840s of life at Eton hypothesises that
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