Sludge Pumping Station
Sludge Pumping Station is an industrial building in Bexley, Greater London, England. Sludge Pumping Station is situated nearby to the wastewater treatment plant Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, as well as near the grassland Final Settlement Tanks.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crossness Sewage Treatment Works and Crossness Pumping Station.
Crossness Sewage Treatment Works
Wastewater treatment plant
Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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 north of Sludge Pumping Station.
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.
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.
Lessness Heath
Suburb
Lessness Heath is a district in the London Borough of Bexley, in the area of Belvedere. Lessness Heath is situated 1½ miles south of Sludge Pumping Station.
Sludge Pumping Station
- Type: Industrial building
- Categories: building and industry
- Location: Bexley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50488° or 51° 30′ 18″ northLongitude
0.14109° or 0° 8′ 28″ eastOpen location code
9F32G43R+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 29232466OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrial
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