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Denny Island
Geography
Location	Severn Estuary
Coordinates	51°31′33″N 2°46′51″W / 51.52578°N 2.78091°WCoordinates: 51°31′33″N 2°46′51″W / 51.52578°N 2.78091°W
Area	0.24 hectares (0.6 acres)
Country
	Wales
County Council	Monmouthshire

For the small island in Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, see that page. For the island in British Columbia, see Denny Island (Canada).

Denny Island (grid reference ST459810) is a small rocky island of 0.24 hectares (0.6 acres), with scrub vegetation, in the mouth of the River Severn. Its rocky southern foreshore marks the boundary between England and Wales. Above high water mark, the island is reckoned administratively to Monmouthshire, South Wales. The island also marks the north-western limit of Bristol City Council's water boundary in the Severn estuary.^[1]

It is located approximately three miles north of Portishead, midway between Redwick in Wales and Avonmouth in England. It is surrounded by sandbanks known as the Welsh Grounds. Its foreshore area changes dramatically according to the state of the tide, because tides in the estuary and Bristol Channel are the second highest in the world, reaching 13.7 m (45 ft) at the spring equinox. It is known as a nesting-place for gulls, cormorants and other seabirds, which are regularly seen and ringed there.

[edit] History

It appears in the historical record for the first time as Dunye, in the charter recording the creation of the county of Bristol in 1373.^[2] This suggests that the name means, in Old English, 'island shaped like a down (i.e. a hill with a rounded profile)'.

It gives its name to the Denny Island Fault Zone, a part of the Avon-Solent Fracture zone.^[3]

Denny Island was, in 2004, subject to an unsuccessful appeal under Section 6(1) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 against it appearing on a map of registered common land. ^[4]

[edit] External links

Images of Denny Island from www.geograph.co.uk

[edit] References

^ Bristol City Council - Beating Bristol's water boundary
^ Harding, N. Dermott (1930). Bristol charters, 1155-1373 p 154-5. Bristol Record Society.
^ Kellaway, G.A. (1996). "Discovery of the Avon-Solent Fracture Zone and its relationship to Bath hot springs.". Environmental Geology 28 (1): 34–9. doi:10.1007/s002540050076.
^ "Appeal Decision" (PDF). Planning Inspectorate,. November 2004. http://www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk/accesswales/wal/appeals_info/documents/dl_1203_e.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-21.

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[0] Bristol City Council - Beating Bristol's water boundary

[1] Harding, N. Dermott (1930). Bristol charters, 1155-1373 p 154-5. Bristol Record Society.

[2] Kellaway, G.A. (1996). "Discovery of the Avon-Solent Fracture Zone and its relationship to Bath hot springs.". Environmental Geology 28 (1): 34–9. doi:10.1007/s002540050076.

[3] "Appeal Decision" (PDF). Planning Inspectorate,. November 2004. http://www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk/accesswales/wal/appeals_info/documents/dl_1203_e.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-21.

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