Thamesmead
Thamesmead is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 11 miles east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Belvedere. It mainly consists of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 31,800 residents
- Description: area in London, England, UK
- Postal code: SE28
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abbey Wood railway station and Abbey Wood Library.
Abbey Wood railway station
Railway station
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Abbey Wood is a major National Rail and Elizabeth line interchange station in Abbey Wood, south-east London, England. It lies between Plumstead and Belvedere on the North Kent Line, 11 miles 43 chains from London Charing Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abbey Wood and West Heath.
Abbey Wood
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abbey Wood is an area in southeast London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and bordering the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 10.6 miles east of Charing Cross. According to the 2021 census, Abbey Wood has a population of 17,700.
West Heath
Suburb
West Heath is an area of South East London within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies south of Abbey Wood and north of Welling.
Gallions Reach
Locality
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gallions Reach is a stretch of the River Thames between Woolwich and Thamesmead. The area is named for the Galyons, a 14th-century family who owned property along this stretch of the river, and places, including street names, on both sides have been named after it.
Thamesmead
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.49893° or 51° 29′ 56″ northLongitude
0.11485° or 0° 6′ 54″ eastPopulation
31,800Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
9F32F4X7+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 27485890OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
11551039Wikidata ID
Q146774
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Thamesmead” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Thamesmead”
- Chinese: “泰晤士米德”
- Chinese: “貝克斯利區”
- Dutch: “Thamesmead”
- French: “Thamesmead”
- Galician: “Thamesmead”
- Hebrew: “תמזמיד”
- Irish: “Thamesmead”
- Italian: “Thamesmead”
- Persian: “تمزمید”
- Slovenian: “Thamesmead”
- South Azerbaijani: “تمزمید”
- Swedish: “Thamesmead”
- Turkish: “Thamesmead”
- Urdu: “تھیمزمیڈ”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Barking Reach and Plumstead Marshes.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Birchmere Park and St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thamesmead”. Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.