page_title: Sonning Eye
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Sonning Eye / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Backwater of the Thames at Sonning. The picture is taken from the footbridge opposite Sonning Mill, looking northwest towards the French Horn (hotel and restaurant). This is on the Oxfordshire side of the river which forms the traditional boundary with Berkshire. The 1970's reorganisation replaced the natural boundary to the west, giving much of West Berkshire to Oxfordshire and moving the Caversham area of Reading from Oxon to Berks. Nowadays Berkshire no longer exists in an official capacity, having been replaced by six unitary authorities.
context_page_description: Sonning Eye is a hamlet on the River Thames in the Sonning Common ward of South Oxfordshire, England, in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden, at what is since 1974 the southernmost tip of Oxfordshire.
context_section_description: Sonning Eye is about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Reading, Berkshire. Sonning Eye is opposite the village of Sonning, Berkshire, to which it is linked by crossing the 18th-century brick-arched Sonning Bridge combined with Sonning Backwater Bridges.
  Sonning Eye is surrounded by the alluvial floodplain of the River Thames, much of which has been extracted for gravel, forming a number of lakes, especially upstream on this bank. In particular, a long rowing lake has been made, the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, named after Olympic oarsmen Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent. Other local sports include sailing and water skiing. Berry Brook, a small tributary runs through the floodplain west and north of Sonning Eye, joining the Thames at Hallsmead Ait to the northeast.
  On the riverside near the Sonning Backwater Bridges is the French Horn, a luxury hotel and restaurant. There is a small public car park here, a place to launch small boats, and a grass area by the river bank that is popular with fishermen.
caption: Backwater of the Thames at Sonning Eye, with a view of the French Horn at Sonning.
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