Monkey Island sounds like it should belong in a Bond film, or at least in an archipelago somewhere in southeast Asia. But no, Google Maps is telling me it’s on a slip road off the M4, just fifty minutes from London.
Tucked behind the village of Bray in Berkshire (blink and you’ll miss the turn-off) is a tiny seven-acre sliver of an island which, despite its exotic name, couldn’t be more quintessentially English.
