DNR A3 Leaflet Map Side 6.3.Indd 1 01/11/2016 13:23
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Crane Park Island, Pevensey Road 0.5 approximate distance in kilometres Th e Du ke Nature Reserve & Donkey Wood ’s R approximate distance in miles 0.5 iv e The Duke’s River Walk r Crane Park Whitton 0.4 m W River The Duke’s River Walk 4.5km / 2.8 miles a l k The Duke’s River Walk kingfi sher emblem was N C River Walk loop 11.8km / 7.4 miles ra k designed from drawings provided by children from ne l a B361 Whitton Road W Chase Bridge Primary School and Isleworth Town r Kneller Gardens e v i Primary School. It is used as a waymarker along the R A316 Chertsey Road s ’ e k u D route of the walk. e h T Whitton Brook Whitton Whitton Dene Meadway 1 Worton Bridge Chase Bridge Kingfi sher Bridge H20 Duke of Northumberla Isleworth 0.4 m nd’s 3 River Mogden Sewage Treatment Works 6 Mereway Rd 2 PH Riv Worton Rd erside Walk 0.3 miles to Redlees Park 4 Queens Bridge Mereway Nature Park 281 Footbridge 5 Unwin Rd 481 481 Twickenham Stoop 681 Redlees Park H20 R iver Crane Twickenham Stadium Whitton Brook B363 St. John’s Road 1 Craneford Way 8 9 H37 117 Recreation Ground 7 St. John’s Park Braddock Close River Walk Public Toilets Marsh Farm Rd The River Crane Footpath Play Area Silverhall Park Twickenham Rough Mill Plat and Kidd’s Mill Shirehorse Way Copper Mill Bridge The River Crane, a tributary This park was part of the There is a substantial wall of the Thames, provides a Thames Path Café gardens for Silverhall House, along Mill Plat marking the green corridor of semi-natural 110 267 281 681 Twickenham 0.3 m which was demolished in the boundary of Kidd’s Flour Mill. habitats from its source (as 1950s. Relics of the house River Walk Loop PH Pub Just before the river enters the the Yeading Brook) in Harrow Moormead Recreation Ground, include an ice house, gates River Thames there is a basin to the Thames at Isleworth. It and veteran trees. The main which was used to load barges Orleans Park & Thames Path Crane Park 267 A310 Twickenham Rd Kendall Bridge supports a wide variety of small Open Space Bus Stop park is laid out for recreation with produce from the mills. An mammals and birds including and across the river is a further eel pass in the mill basin helps H37 110 267 water voles, kingfi shers and River Flow National Rail area managed principally for eels navigate upstream over owls, as well as 15 species of wildlife. the large manmade structures Silverhall Park fi sh. of Kidd’s Sluice. 8 t e e r t 2 3 4 5 6 7 S th or LionWharf Rd N Richmond Road 4 00 Rive A3 Ch urch 9 Str r eet Mill Bridge Cr Mereway Nature Park Rugby Whitton Brook Mogden Sewage Treatment Mills Isleworth Brewery H37 ane PH Mill Basin This small area of mixed Two rugby grounds can be Whitton Brook is the historic Works & Eel Pass The river north of Worton This part of the river runs along bramble scrub is a haven seen from the river walk. administrative boundary This is the second largest Road is the site of two mills the line of the old Hounslow PH for wildlife. It is located at Twickenham Stoop has between Isleworth and sewage treatment works in the and a moated manor house Brook, the fl ow of which was Isleworth Ait the divergence of the River been home to the Harlequin Twickenham. It is identifi ed by UK, constructed in the 1930s which were still visible until the augmented by the construction Crane and the Duke of Rugby Football Club since a line of mature trees on the and owned and operated by twentieth century. This natural of the Duke’s River. There was Syon House Thames Northumberland’s River, where 1963. Further downstream is opposite bank to the path. Thames Water. The site covers looking section of the river has a brewery on this site from the River there is a large weir which Twickenham Stadium home Water voles can be found along 55 hectares and serves over 2 areas of mature willows, scrub eighteenth century, owned by controls the fl ow between of the Rugby Football Union this stretch of the river. They million people. ZSL has been and bankside vegetation, and the Farnell family. After 1866 it Old Deer Park the two rivers. There is an and England’s national rugby feed on bankside vegetation, monitoring for eels in the River provides good habitat for bats became the Isleworth Brewery outdoor classroom for use stadium. The fi rst international and live in burrow systems Crane since 2011, and an eel and nesting water birds. and operated here until the by schools on the site and match took place there in 1910. excavated into the river bank, pass has been installed to aid 1980s. The river was heavily the adjacent Kneller Gardens which include underwater the eels over the manmade altered for industrial purposes, has refreshment facilities and entrances used as an escape barriers, such as the weir and in addition to the brewery public toilets. route. on this site, that inhibit their provided power for copper migration. In its fi rst year of use mills, a paper mill and brazil over 600 eels were counted (a red dye used for dyeing moving upstream via this pass. cloth) mill. DNR A3 leaflet map side 6.3.indd 1 01/11/2016 13:23.