Greenwich pumping station
Greenwich Pumping Station, known until c. 1986 as Deptford Pumping Station, is a sewage pumping station in the London Borough of Greenwich built in 1865 to the east of Deptford Creek.Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Pumping station
- Description: Sewage pumping station built in 1865 to the east of Deptford
- Also known as: “Deptford Creek Pumping Station”, “Deptford Pumping Station”, “Deptford Sewage Pumping Station”, “Greenwich Pumping Station”, and “Thames Water Greenwich Pumping Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Greenwich station and Royal Observatory.
Greenwich station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greenwich station is about 400 m south-west of the district centre, in London, England. It is an interchange between National Rail between central London and Dartford, and the Docklands Light Railway between Lewisham to the south and Docklands and the City of London. Greenwich station is situated 760 feet northeast of Greenwich pumping station.
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 3,900 feet east of Greenwich pumping station.
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 2,900 feet northeast of Greenwich pumping station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deptford and New Cross.
Deptford
Suburb
Photo: SilkTork, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne.
New Cross
Suburb
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
New Cross is an area in south-east London, England, 4.5 miles south-east of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham and the SE14 postcode district.
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.
Greenwich pumping station
- Category: industry
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.47715° or 51° 28′ 38″ northLongitude
-0.01838° or 0° 1′ 6″ westOperator
Thames WaterOpen location code
9C3XFXGJ+VJOpenStreetMap ID
way 1025981009OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=pumping_stationWikidata ID
Q85756446
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