Abbey Mills Pumping Station

Abbey Mills Pumping Station is a sewage pumping station in Mill Meads, East London, operated by Thames Water. The pumping station lifts sewage on the London Main Drainage sewerage system into the Northern Outfall Sewer and the Lee Tunnel, which both run to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.

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Type: Pumping station
Description: historic sewage pumping station in Abbey Lane, London
Also known as: “Abbey Mills Pumping Stations” and “The Cathedral of Sewage”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include London Stadium and West Ham station.

London Stadium

Stadium

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London Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Stratford district of London. It is located in the Lower Lea Valley, 6 miles east of central London. London Stadium is situated 1 mile northwest of Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

West Ham station

Railway station

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West Ham is an interchange station in West Ham in the London Borough of Newham, East London. It is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, 4 miles 8 chains down the line from Fenchurch Street in Central London. West Ham station is situated 1,600 feet east of Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

Channelsea Island

Islet

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Channelsea Island is a small man-made island in the centre of the Channelsea River in East London, near Three Mills Island in the London Borough of Newham. Channelsea Island is situated 570 feet east of Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mill Meads and Three Mills.

Mill Meads

Quarter

Mill Meads is an area in the borough of Newham in east London, located on the border with Tower Hamlets.

Three Mills

Neighborhood

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The Three Mills are former working mills and an island of the same name on the River Lea. It is one of London’s oldest surviving industrial centres. The mills lie in the London Borough of Newham, but despite lying on the Newham side of the Lea, access is principally from the western, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, side of the river.

Bow Locks

Locality

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Bow Locks No. 20 is a set of bi-directional locks in Bromley-by-Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Newham. The locks link the tidal Bow Creek to the River Lee Navigation, which is a canalised river.

Abbey Mills Pumping Station

Categories: sewerage pumping station and industry
Location: Newham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.52942° or 51° 31′ 46″ north

Longitude

-0.00214° or 0° 0′ 8″ west

Operator

Thames Water

Open location code

9C3XGXHX+Q4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 181838239

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=pumping_station

Wikidata ID

Q4664040

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Slovenian—“Abbey Mills Pumping Station” goes by many names.

Armenian: “Էբբի Միլս պոմպակայան”
Catalan: “estació de bombament d’Abbey Mills”
Chinese: “Abbey Mills泵站”
Chinese: “阿貝米爾斯泵站”
French: “Station de pompage d’Abbey Mills”
German: “Abbey Mills Pumping Station”
Portuguese: “Abbey Mills Pumping Station”
Slovenian: “Abbey Mills Pumping Station”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Stores Building At Abbey Mills To West Of Pumping Station and Long Wall Ecology Garden.

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