Grand Junction Isle
Grand Junction Isle is on the River Thames (below Oxford) near to Sunderland Aqueduct.
The River Thames (below Oxford) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on 17 September 1782. From a junction with The Lee and Stort Navigation at Cambridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Portsmouth. Expectations for coal traffic to Rochester were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the River Thames (below Oxford) were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Bassetlaw kept it open. The River Thames (below Oxford) was closed in 1888 when Perth Embankment collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Charles Wood made a model of Nuneaton Inclined plane out of matchsticks live on television.

| Sunbury Lock Ait Footbridge | 7 furlongs | |
| Sunbury Lock | 6¼ furlongs | |
| Sunbury Lock Weir Exit | 5½ furlongs | |
| Rivermead Island | 4½ furlongs | |
| Sunbury Court Island | 2 furlongs | |
| Grand Junction Isle | ||
| Platts Eyot | 6 furlongs | |
| Benn's Island | 1 mile, ¾ furlongs | |
| Hampton Ferry (River Thames) | 1 mile, 1 furlong | |
| Garrick's Ait | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
| Tagg's Island | 1 mile, 4¾ furlongs | |
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Nearest water point
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Osney Bridge
Nearest rubbish disposal
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Osney Bridge
Nearest chemical toilet disposal
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Osney Bridge
Nearest place to turn
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Osney Bridge
Nearest self-operated pump-out
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Osney Bridge
Nearest boatyard pump-out
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
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Grand Junction Isle is a small island in the River Thames on the reach above Molesey Lock at Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, England. It is just downstream of Sunbury Court Island, which is three times longer and also close to the north bank.




























![Suburban cormorant at Sunbury, seen from the Lower Hampton Road. For many years, cormorants were absent from this stretch of the Thames, returning in the 1970's. This one is drying out in the sun, on a little private landing stage - which must be a regular roosting site, judging by the heaps of guano. Along this section of the Lower Hampton Road, riverside dwellings are sited below street level, so that I was able to take this zoom shot over the roofs of the houses. Anglers would have us believe that the cormorant is strictly a sea-bird, which would not be seen on inland waters but for recent human interference with the natural order. But in the cormorant's case that interference began centuries ago, a price being put on its head in Tudor times. To quote from an act of Parliament dated 1566: 'For everie Head of Martyn, Hawkes, Furskytte, Moldekytte, Busarde, Shagge, Cormerat, or Ryngtale, two pence; and for every two Egges of them one Penney . . .' [Quoted by Colin Tubbs in his book, 'The Buzzard', which casts much light on the history of wildlife persecution in this country. 'Furskytte' and 'moldekytte' refer to the stoat and weasel, 'ryngtale' to species of harrier]. by Stefan Czapski – 04 December 2012](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/24/98/3249860_d17ed584_120x120.jpg)

