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The Cutty Sark is a Grade II listed public house at 6-7 Ballast Quay, Greenwich, London. [1] It was built in the early 19th century, [1] replacing an earlier pub, The Green Man. It was initially called The Union Tavern, but was renamed The Cutty Sark Tavern when the tea clipper came to Greenwich in 1951. [2]
Cutty Sark station opened on 3 December 1999 as part of a 4.2-kilometre (3 mi) extension of the DLR from its former southern terminus of Island Gardens southwards to Lewisham. [8] Since its opening, the extension has seen growth as a result of it connecting, along with two National Rail connections, the Canary Wharf financial centre with Greenwich.
Greenwich Pier is a major stop for a number of river operators including: Uber Boat by Thames Clippers, which operates a commuter catamaran service between Greenwich and Central London, via Embankment, Tower Millennium Pier and Canary Wharf.
Since Cutty Sark's arrival to Greenwich, it is thought that more than 17 million visitors have stepped aboard. Before it reached Greenwich, it was first towed to East India Docks where its ...
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Northwards, the DLR goes into a tunnel through Cutty Sark station and under the River Thames to the Isle of Dogs; in the opposite direction, it rises on a concrete viaduct to follow the River Ravensbourne upstream to Deptford Bridge and Lewisham. On the National Rail network, Greenwich is 3 miles 47 chains (5.8 km) measured from London Bridge.
Cutty Sark made it in 84 days and Thermopylae in 77 days. [12] In 1854–1855, Lightning made the longer passage from Melbourne to Liverpool in 65 days, completing a circumnavigation of the world in 5 months, 9 days, which included 20 days spent in port.
Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Limehouse, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of Rotherhithe, west of Cubitt Town, and has a long shoreline along London's Tideway, part of the River Thames.