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North Greenwich is a London Underground station [7] at the northernmost tip of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The station lower concourse between the escalators and the oyster ticketing system, July 2024 Westbound platforms 1 and 2, July 2024. The tube station opened on 14 May 1999.
Map of North Greenwich station, 1890s. North Greenwich was the terminus of the Millwall Extension Railway (MER) branch of the London and Blackwall Railway, 4 miles 39 chains (7.2 km) down-line from the western terminus at Fenchurch Street, although services did not operate through to Fenchurch Street but instead connected to the Fenchurch Street-Blackwall service at Millwall Junction.
Royal charters granted to English colonists in North America, [6] as well as in Company Bombay and St Helena, [7] often used the name of the manor of East Greenwich for describing the tenure (from the Latin verb teneo, hold) as that of free socage. [8]
North Greenwich is a formal 19th century name for an area now in Millwall situated at the very southern tip of the Isle of Dogs, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.It lies to the south of the commercial estates of West India Docks including Canary Wharf and has a short shoreline along London's Tideway part of the River Thames.
North Greenwich Pier was originally built in the 1880s as a coaling jetty for the former Greenwich gasworks before this closed in the late 1980s. Most of the original jetty was demolished in 1997 to make way for the new passenger pier; however eight of the original cast iron caisson columns were retained to secure the new floating pier.
The Jubilee line extension included a station at North Greenwich, which would include a large car park and bus station. [1] Construction on the tube station began in 1993. In 1996, Greenwich was chosen as the site for the Millennium Experience, with the under construction station considered to be a key part of the transport infrastructure.
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.