Crossness Sewage Treatment Works
The Crossness Sewage Treatment Works is a sewage treatment plant located at Crossness in the London Borough of Bexley. It was opened in 1865 and is Europe's second largest sewage treatment works, after its counterpart Beckton Sewage Treatment Works located north of the river.Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crossness Pumping Station and Crossness Nature Reserve.
Crossness Pumping Station
Museum
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the architect Charles Henry Driver for the Metropolitan Board of Works's chief engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Crossness Pumping Station is situated 1,700 feet northwest of Crossness Sewage Treatment Works.
Crossness Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crossness Nature Reserve is a 25.5 hectare local nature reserve in Crossness in the London Borough of Bexley. It is part of the Erith Marshes Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.
Belvedere railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Belvedere railway station is a railway station in South East London between Abbey Wood and Erith. It is 12 miles 75 chains measured from London Charing Cross. Belvedere railway station is situated 1 mile southeast of Crossness Sewage Treatment Works.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belvedere and Thamesmead.
Belvedere
Suburb
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belvedere is a town in south east London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies close to the River Thames, with Erith to the east, Bexleyheath to the south, and Abbey Wood and Thamesmead to the west.
Thamesmead
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thamesmead is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 11 miles east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Belvedere. It mainly consists of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames.
Frog Island
Locality
Frog Island is a peninsula on the north bank of the River Thames in Rainham, London at grid reference TQ515805. It is used for vehicle storage in Ferry Lane Industrial Estate and for the mechanical biological treatment works building of the East London Waste Authority. Frog Island is situated 1½ miles east of Crossness Sewage Treatment Works.
Crossness Sewage Treatment Works
- Type: Wastewater treatment plant
- Description: sewage treatment plant in southeast London
- Category: industry
- Location: Bexley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50486° or 51° 30′ 18″ northLongitude
0.14158° or 0° 8′ 30″ eastOperator
Thames WaterOpen location code
9F32G43R+WJOpenStreetMap ID
way 29120021OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=wastewater_plantWikidata ID
Q85850409
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