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The Docklands in 1882 - a time of great expansion for the Port of London. Much of the Port's operations have now moved further downstream. This is a list of about 680 former or extant wharves, docks, piers, terminals, etc. of the Port of London, the majority of which lie on the Tideway of the River Thames, listed from upstream to downstream.
Canary Wharf is an area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Canary Wharf is defined by the Greater London Authority as being part of London's central business district , alongside Central London . [ 1 ]
Isle of Dogs as shown in John Rocque's Map of London and ten miles around, 1746, showing the area before development. The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England. It includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts.
Deptford Wharf in London, United Kingdom, is on the Thames Path southeast of South Dock Marina, across the culverted mouth of the Earl's Sluice and north of Aragon Tower. In the late 18th and early 19th century this area was used for shipbuilding with several building slips .
Lower Wharfedale from above Otley. The Wharfedale valley was cut into the shape we know today during the last ice age (the Devensian Glaciation).The valley was transformed into its classic U-shaped state between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago by the Wharfedale Glacier, [2] though this was cutting through a channel that had already had a river draining water away to the east through what is now ...
Traffic sign: Quayside or river bank ahead. Unprotected quayside or riverbank. A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings.Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage: where it is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or ...
Modern Docklands, showing Canary Wharf Map of the Docklands. London Docklands is an area of London encompassing the city’s former docks. It is located in inner east and southeast London, in the boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Newham and Greenwich.