Olympia Convoy’s Wharf

Olympia Convoy’s Wharf is a building in Lewisham, Greater London, England. Olympia Convoy’s Wharf is situated nearby to the park Sayes Court, as well as near Twinkle Park.

Type: Building
Description: architectural structure in Lewisham, London, England, UK
Also known as: “Olympia Warehouse”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sayes Court and Convoys Wharf.

Sayes Court

Park

Sayes Court was a manor house and garden in Deptford, in the London Borough of Lewisham on the Thames Path and in the former parish of St Nicholas. Sayes Court once attracted throngs to visit its celebrated garden created by the seventeenth century diarist John Evelyn. Sayes Court is situated 740 feet southwest of Olympia Convoy’s Wharf.

Convoys Wharf

Photo: Joseph Farington, Public domain.

Convoys Wharf in Deptford is a former commercial wharf on the River Thames in London, currently awaiting redevelopment. It includes the site of Deptford Dockyard, built in the reign of King Henry VIII as one of the first Royal Dockyards.

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 1 mile east of Olympia Convoy’s Wharf.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burrells Wharf and Millwall.

Burrells Wharf

Neighborhood

Photo: Alctanay, Public domain.

Burrells Wharf is a riverside residential estate, owned by its leaseholders, in London, England. It is situated on the Isle of Dogs and the north bank of the River Thames.

Millwall

Quarter

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of Rotherhithe, west of Cubitt Town, and has a long shoreline along London's Tideway, part of the River Thames.