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.

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 affluent area in south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the ceremonial county of Greater London, 5.5 miles east-south-east of Charing Cross.

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

Type: Work of art
Artwork type: sculpture
Category: tourism
Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.48651° or 51° 29′ 11″ north

Longitude

-0.00067° or 0° 0′ 2″ west

Inception

2004

Open location code

9C3XFXPX+JP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 565594680

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

OpenStreetMap attribute

artwork_type=sculpture

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