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- Olivers_Island abstract "Oliver's Island is a small, heavily wooded river island, or ait, in the River Thames in England. It is located in the London Borough of Hounslow on the Tideway near Kew, and is opposite Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick.The island derives its name from a story that Oliver Cromwell once took refuge on it, but there is almost certainly no truth in this story. It was called Strand Ayt until a century after the Civil War, by which time a myth had arisen that Cromwell had set up an intermittent headquarters at the Bull's Head, Strand-on-the-Green. The story was embellished with the suggestion that a secret tunnel connected the island to the inn, but no evidence of any tunnel has ever been found.In 1777 the City of London's navigation committee installed a tollbooth on Oliver’s Island to levy charges on passing craft to fund improvements to the river’s navigability. This was a wooden structure in the shape of a small castle, and a barge was moored alongside, from which the tolls were taken. The “City Barge” gave its name to the inn at Strand-on-the-Green. Successor barges were often stationed here to collect tolls until a dock was built on the Surrey shore. There was a smithy on the island by 1865 and it became a place where barges were built and repaired. In 1857 the Thames Conservancy took over navigation responsibilities from the City of London and in 1909 assigned Oliver’s Island to the Port of London Authority (PLA), which used it as a storage depot and as a wharf for derelict vessels. When the PLA tried to sell the island in 1971, the Strand on the Green Association, an amenity group formed by residents for their locality, led the protests and the plan was quickly dropped. The smithy was demolished in 1990.The thickly wooded island is now a haven for herons, cormorants and Canada geese.".
- Olivers_Island thumbnail Olivers_Island.jpg?width=300.
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- Olivers_Island wikiPageOutDegree "27".
- Olivers_Island wikiPageRevisionID "695644617".
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Ait.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Brentford_Ait.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Bulls_Head,_Strand-on-the-Green.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Canada_goose.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geography_of_Hounslow.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Category:Islands_of_London.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Category:Islands_of_the_River_Thames.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Chiswick.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Chiswick_Eyot.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink City_of_London.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Cormorant.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink English_Civil_War.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Heron.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Island.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Islands_in_the_River_Thames.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Kew.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink London_Borough_of_Hounslow.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink New_York_City.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Oliver_Cromwell.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Port_of_London_Authority.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink River_Thames.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Strand-on-the-Green.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Thames_Conservancy.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink Tideway.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink File:Olivers_Island.jpg.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLink File:Olivers_island.jpg.
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLinkText "Oliver's Island".
- Olivers_Island wikiPageWikiLinkText "Olivers Island".
- Olivers_Island downstream Chiswick_Eyot.
- Olivers_Island upstream Brentford_Ait.
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- Olivers_Island subject Category:Geography_of_Hounslow.
- Olivers_Island subject Category:Islands_of_London.
- Olivers_Island subject Category:Islands_of_the_River_Thames.
- Olivers_Island point "51.485 -0.28111111111111114".
- Olivers_Island type SpatialThing.
- Olivers_Island comment "Oliver's Island is a small, heavily wooded river island, or ait, in the River Thames in England. It is located in the London Borough of Hounslow on the Tideway near Kew, and is opposite Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick.The island derives its name from a story that Oliver Cromwell once took refuge on it, but there is almost certainly no truth in this story.".
- Olivers_Island label "Oliver's Island".
- Olivers_Island sameAs Q7087357.
- Olivers_Island sameAs Oliver’s_Island.
- Olivers_Island sameAs m.03y0dzv.
- Olivers_Island sameAs Q7087357.
- Olivers_Island lat "51.485".
- Olivers_Island long "-0.28111111111111114".
- Olivers_Island wasDerivedFrom Olivers_Island?oldid=695644617.
- Olivers_Island depiction Olivers_Island.jpg.
- Olivers_Island isPrimaryTopicOf Olivers_Island.