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Deptford Park is a large urban park close to the River Thames photo: Stephen Craven, geograph.org.uk. Deptford Park is a public park in Deptford south-east London. It is owned by London Borough of Lewisham. The closest local stations are Deptford and Surrey Quays.
Deptford's economic history has been strongly connected to the Dockyard - when the Dockyard was thriving, so Deptford thrived; with the docks now all closed, Deptford has declined economically. [ 24 ] [ 35 ] However, areas of Deptford are being gradually re-developed and gentrified - and the local council has plans to regenerate the riverside ...
[14] [15] In 1884 he sold land then being used as market gardens in Deptford to the London County Council for less than its market value, as well as paying £2000 towards the cost of its purchase. This was officially opened to the public as Deptford Park on 7 June 1897. [16]
Deptford Park – owned by the Borough since 1897. Folkestone Gardens – 1970s park close to Deptford Park and created from an area of land badly damaged by a V-2 rocket in 1945. Part of the London Cycle Network, and notable for its large pond and children's play area. Forster Memorial Park – east of the A21 road in the Whitefoot and ...
Deptford Township (pronounced DEP-ford [20]) is a township in Gloucester County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 31,977, [10] [11] an increase of 1,416 (+4.6%) from the 2010 census count of 30,561, [21] [22] which in turn reflected an increase of 3,798 (+14.2%) from the 26,763 counted in the 2000 census.
The Creekside Discovery Centre is a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) natural habitat in Deptford in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is owned by the National Grid and managed by the Creekside Education Trust. Formerly a gas works, [2] the centre is a brownfield habitat incorporating the only existing sloping beach into Deptford Creek. [3]
Sayes Court Park in 2008. Sayes Court was a manor house and garden in Deptford, in the London Borough of Lewisham on the Thames Path and in the former parish of St Nicholas. Sayes Court once attracted throngs to visit its celebrated garden [1] [2] created by the seventeenth century diarist John Evelyn.
The Deptford area had been used to build royal ships since the early fifteenth century, during the reign of Henry V.Moves were made to improve the administration and operation of the Royal Navy during the Tudor period, and Henry VII paid £5 rent for a storehouse in Deptford in 1487, before going on to found the first royal dockyard at Portsmouth in 1496. [4]