Trowlock Island is a residential island in the River Thames 450 metres (490 yd) upstream of Teddington Lock on the non-tidal Kingston reach less than 10 metres from the northern bank, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England.
This corner on the left of the island faces the link to the mainland, a chain pulley on a pile-sheeted, concrete wharf and faces the combined Royal Canoe Club and Walbrook Rowing Club.
Trowlock Island chain ferry
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Teddington Lock is a complex of three locks and a weir on the River Thames between Ham and Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. Historically in Middlesex, it was first built in 1810.
Teddington Lock undergoing maintenance. From left to right – rollers, skiff lock, launch lock and barge lock
Barrage at Teddington Lock
Kingston from the river
Scullers, skiffs and Thames Raters at Raven's Ait on one of the most active stretches of the river