Anchor Iron
Anchor Iron is a work of art in Greenwich, Greater London, England. Anchor Iron is situated nearby to the pub Cutty Sark, as well as near Greenwich Power Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Y.ssk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Description: sculpture by Wendy Taylor
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal Observatory and Cutty Sark.
Royal Observatory
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north. Royal Observatory is situated 3,300 feet south of Anchor Iron.
Cutty Sark
Museum
Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. Cutty Sark is situated 2,400 feet southwest of Anchor Iron.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. National Maritime Museum is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Anchor Iron.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenwich and Cubitt Town.
Greenwich
Town
Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Greenwich is an area in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London, 5.5 miles east-south-east of Charing Cross. Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time.
Cubitt Town
Quarter
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, after whom it is named.
London Yard
Neighborhood
London Yard was a shipyard in Cubitt Town, London, in use between around 1856 and 1908 by various shipbuilding companies, including Westwood, Baillie and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
Anchor Iron
- Categories: sculpture and tourism
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.48651° or 51° 29′ 11″ northLongitude
-0.00067° or 0° 0′ 2″ westInception
2004Open location code
9C3XFXPX+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 565594680OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculptureWikidata ID
Q130603711
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