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St Saviour's Dock, looking north toward the Thames. The street Shad Thames is named as such in John Rocque's 1747 map of London. [1] The name may be a corruption of 'St John-at-Thames', a reference to the St John's Church which once stood south-west of the street, where the present-day London City Mission is located [2] Alternatively it may be from shad fish, which could be found in the Thames.
St Saviour's Dock (View North to Thames) St Saviour's Dock (South to Dock Head) A seal sits on a bird feeding platform in the dock in 2010. St Saviour's Dock is an inlet-style dock in London, England, on the south bank of the River Thames, 420 metres east of Tower Bridge. It forms the eastern end of the Shad Thames embankment that starts at ...
Butler's Wharf is an English historic building at Shad Thames on the south bank of the River Thames, just east of London's Tower Bridge, now housing luxury flats and restaurants. Lying between Shad Thames and the Thames Path, it overlooks both the bridge and St Katharine Docks on the north side of the river. Butler's Wharf is also used as a ...
The most notorious of the slums was known as Jacob's Island, with the boundary approximately the confluence of the Thames and subterranean River Neckinger, at St Saviour's Dock across from Shad Thames, to the west, a tidal ditch just west of George Row to the east, and another tidal ditch just north of London Street (now Wolseley Street) to the ...
It is a signed route, running in parallel to the River Thames. [42] National Cycle Route 425 (NCN 425) Camberwell: Rotherhithe NCN 425 runs southwest–northeast across Bermondsey. The route is predominantly carried by residential streets or shared-use paths. It is a signed route, running non-stop from Camberwell to Rotherhithe. [43]
Here the inlet divides the riverside districts of Shad Thames and Jacob's Island. The River Neckinger is a reduced subterranean river that rises in Southwark and flows approximately 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) through south London to St Saviour's Dock where it enters the Thames.
Roads leading to bridges across the Thames meet at St. George's Circus; The A201 Inner Ring Road crosses the north-west of the area from the Elephant and Castle to Tower Bridge and the city. The A2 runs along Old Kent Road through the north of the borough and is London's main artery from the centre out to Kent.
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.