D'Oyly Carte Island
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| Waters | Thames | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 23 ′ N , 0 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| length | 145 m | |
| width | 30 m - 45 m | |
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D'Oyly Carte Island is an island in the River Thames , England . The island belongs to Weybridge and is part of Shepperton . The island is upriver from Sunbury Lock and 200m downriver from Shepperton Lock . Before 1890 the island was called Folly Eyot .
The forested island is 145 m long and between 30 m and 45 m wide. Weybridge is the parish and post town . Elmbridge and Surrey County Council are the district and the county, respectively.
history
The island was named after Richard D'Oyly Carte the producer of Gilbert and Sullivan , founder of the Savoy Theater and the Royal English Opera House, and hotel owner. He bought the island around 1890 and it got his name.
Carte built the main structure on the island: Eyot House . The house has a large garden that he and his wife designed. The house was used by him as a residence.
Carte wanted to use it as an extension of his Savoy Hotel , which could be reached by boat from the hotel, but local authorities refused him a license to serve alcohol. Famous guests on the island who stayed at Cartes house included WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan . Cartes widow Helen Carte sold the property after her husband died.
A narrow pedestrian bridge in the brutalist style was built in 1964. The island has a marina with mooring for small boats.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grid Reference Finder Distance Tools
- ↑ Weybridge St James ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Church of England
- ↑ Surrey Council Council interactive maps.Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ a b Rutland Barrington: A Record of 35 Years' Experience on the English Stage. P. 73.
- ^ Keith Pauling Richard D'Oyly Carte. In: Thames Pathway: Journal of a Walk Down the River Thames. 2009, ISBN 978-1-4452-2239-4 .
- ↑ Shepperton Lock. In: About the Thames. Retrieved April 11, 2009.
- ↑ Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about the River Thames. Ebury Press, London 2010, p. 138.
- ^ A Guide to the Industrial Archeology of the Borough of Elmbridge. on moleseyhistory.co.uk
- ↑ D'Oyly Carte Island marina. ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: World Marine Guide. 2009, accessed November 12, 2012.
