Greenland Dock

Greenland Dock is the oldest of London's riverside wet docks, located in Rotherhithe area of the London Borough of Southwark. It used to be part of the Surrey Commercial Docks, most of which have by now been filled in.

Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Den and South Dock.

The Den

Stadium

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Den is a football stadium in the New Cross and Bermondsey area of south-east London, and the home of Millwall Football Club. The Den is adjacent to the South London railway originating at London Bridge, and a quarter-of-a-mile from the Old Den, which it replaced on September 30, 1993.

South Dock

Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

South Dock is one of two surviving docks in the former Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, London, England. It was built in 1807–1811 just south of the larger Greenland Dock, to which it is connected by a channel now known as Greenland Cut; it also has a lock giving access to the River Thames.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Surrey Quays and Rotherhithe.

Surrey Quays

Quarter

Photo: Secretlondon, Public domain.

Surrey Quays is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks. The precise boundaries of the area are somewhat amorphous, but it is generally considered to comprise the southern half of the Rotherhithe peninsula from Canada Water to South Dock; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.

Rotherhithe

Suburb

Photo: Rob Kam, CC0.

Rotherhithe is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on the south bank of a bend in the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the east.

Millwall

Quarter

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of Rotherhithe, west of Cubitt Town, and has a long shoreline along London's Tideway, part of the River Thames.

Greenland Dock

Type: Dock
Description: Dock in Rotherhithe, London
Category: transportation
Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.4953° or 51° 29′ 43″ north

Longitude

-0.03627° or 0° 2′ 11″ west

Elevation

36 feet (11 metres)

Open location code

9C3XFXW7+4F

GeoNames ID

12450896

Wikidata ID

Q1544727

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Hebrew—“Greenland Dock” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Greenland Dock”
French: “Greenland Dock”
German: “Greenland Dock”
Greek: “Greenland Dock”
Hebrew: “המבדוק הגדול של האולנד”

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