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 Crossness Pumping Station.
Abbey Wood railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dagenham and Thamesmead.
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.
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.
Erith
Town
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Erith is an area in south-east London, England, 13.3 miles east of Charing Cross. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in the historical county of Kent.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.502° or 51° 30′ 7″ northLongitude
0.1504° or 0° 9′ 2″ eastOperator
RSPBOpen location code
9F32G522+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
way 864833357OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetlandWikidata 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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