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Denny Island (grid reference ST458810) is a small rocky island of 0.24 hectares (0.6 acres), with scrub vegetation, in the mouth of the River Severn. It is situated approximately three miles north of Portishead. Its rocky southern foreshore marks the boundary between England and Wales, but the island itself is reckoned administratively to Monmouthshire, Wales.

It appears in the record for the first time as Dunye, in the charter recording the creation of the county of Bristol in 1373.[1] 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.[2] If it is famous for anything, it is as a nesting-place for gulls, cormorants and other seabirds, which are regularly seen and ringed there.

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. [3]

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I think there is still some dispute, with some local "lord" claiming title, and putting up Keep Off signs, and others going over and removing them. There was an "official" trip out there last year for some reason associated with a court case.

There is an all-tide (neaps?) pool close by, and the local fishermen regularly anchor close. I have often thought of going over myself, but it's a bit scary due to the lack of time when you don't want to have to take the ground!

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