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'''Lion Island''' is a small uninhabited island in the [[River Thames]] in England on the reach above [[Old Windsor Lock]], near [[Old Windsor]], [[Berkshire]].  The island is a thin wooded strip separated by a narrow channel on the north bank. It is just above Old Windsor Weir and the head of New Cut which leads to Old Windsor Lock.
The island is the relict of three long parallel islands which existed at this point before the creation of the Old Windsor Lock cut. One of these was called Nickcroft Ait, and an obstruction known as "Newman's Bucks" existed between two of them <ref>Fred. S. Thacker ''The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs'' 1920 - republished 1968 David & Charles</ref>
==See also==
*[[Islands in the River Thames]]
==References==
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[[Category:Islands of Berkshire]]
[[Category:Islands of the River Thames]]
[[Category:Uninhabited islands of England]]
[[Category:Old Windsor]]