Sashes Island
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| Geographical location | 51 ° 34 ′ N , 0 ° 42 ′ W | |
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Sashes Island is an island in the River Thames at Cookham Lock near Cookham , Berkshire .
The island lies between Hedsor Water and today's entrance to the lock. The island can be accessed via footbridges from Cookham across Formosa Island and Mill Island. Your name comes from "Sceaftesege" or " Sceaf 's Isle".
history
The oldest known map of the island dates from around 1580. This map shows the Sashes Stream , which divides the island in two.
It is believed that the island was the point at which the Roman road of camlet Way , the Thames crossed. Wooden piles were found at this point in the 19th century and 1969, indicating a larger bridge. It could be that Cookham derives its name from Cwch-ium , which means “boat place” in Celtic .
A burh , a defense system against the Danes , was built on Sashes Island at the time of Alfred the Great . In 914 it was recorded in the Burghal Hidage . The Burghal Hidage reports that the defenses on Sceaftessige were 4,125 feet long. No traces of this fortification have been found, which may be the result of the work on the lock in the 1830s. Weapons from the time of the Saxons were found in the river.
There is a landscape painting of Sashes Island by Gilbert Spencer, brother of Stanley Spencer , who was born in Cookham.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Saxon Defense, Sashes and Cookham Area - Attachment A. ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. at Minas Tirith Ltd. (Archaeological Survey), accessed November 17, 2015 in 2008.
- ^ David Gordon Wilson: The Thames: record of a working waterway. BT Batsford, 1987, ISBN 0-7134-5298-6 , p. 55.
- ↑ Berkshire History, Cookham.Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- ↑ Historical Cookham on widbrook2.blogspot.com
