Thameside Preservation Trust

Thameside Preservation Trust 

The Trust was created in 1984 to hold the balance of funds raised by public subscription in the late 1930s with a view to purchasing and preserving riverside land between Bourne End and Marlow. Part of the money donated was used to purchase Spade Oak Meadow in 1939.

In 1996, a local advisory committee consisting of representatives from the three riverside parishes, Wooburn & Bourne End, Little Marlow and Marlow was set up with the object of acquiring and preserving land for the benefit and recreation of the public.

An opportunity arose in 2001 to purchase Spade Oak Wharf with a 70 metre river frontage adjoining Spade Oak Meadow, and to date that is the only acquisition. Income from boat moorings, an ice cream concession and occasional river contractors is used to maintain the grassed areas and provide litter collection facilities as well as funding necessary recent repairs to the sheet piling.