Rainsborough Avenue Embankments

Rainsborough Avenue Embankments is a forest in London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England. Rainsborough Avenue Embankments is situated nearby to the neighborhood Greenland Place, as well as near Marine Wharf.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Tower of London and Cutty Sark.

The Tower of London

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The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in London, England.

Cutty Sark

Museum

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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.

Royal Observatory

Museum

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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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East End and East London.

East End

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The East End is a district of inner London. The boundaries of the East End are not well defined, but for the purposes of this page it covers from the edge of The City to the River Lea. Highlights include the large cluster of markets and the pubs.

East London

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East London is the part of London, England, east of the ancient City of London and north of the River Thames as it begins to widen. East London developed as London's docklands and the primary industrial centre.