Crossness Nature Reserve

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.

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abbey Wood railway station and Belvedere railway station.

Abbey Wood railway station

Railway station

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Abbey Wood is a major National Rail and Elizabeth line interchange station in Abbey Wood, south-east London, England. It lies between Plumstead and Belvedere on the North Kent Line, 11 miles 43 chains from London Charing Cross.

Belvedere railway station

Railway station

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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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dagenham and Becontree.

Dagenham

Suburb

Photo: MRSC, Public domain.

Dagenham is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Dagenham is centred 11+1⁄2 miles east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the Becontree Hundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Forest in the north to the River Thames in the south.

Becontree

Suburb

Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Becontree is an area of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, England, 11 miles northeast of Charing Cross. It was constructed between 1921 and 1935 as the largest public housing estate in the world.

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.

Crossness Nature Reserve

Type: Nature reserve
Description: nature reserves in the UK
Categories: wetland and recreation area
Location: Bexley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.502° or 51° 30′ 7″ north

Longitude

0.1504° or 0° 9′ 2″ east

Operator

RSPB

Open location code

9F32G522+Q5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 864833357

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wetland

Wikidata ID

Q15917261

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Crossness Nature Reserve” goes by many names.

Polish: “Rezerwat przyrody Crossness”

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