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Surrey Docks Farm is a working city farm in the heart of London. [1] It occupies a 2.2-acre (8,900 m 2 ) site on the south bank of the River Thames in Rotherhithe . Activities
An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act of His present Majesty, for maintaining and improving the Docks and Warehouses, called The Commercial Docks, in the Parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey; and for extending the Power of the said Act. Citation: 51 Geo. 3. c. lxvi: Dates; Royal assent: 14 May 1811: Other ...
Surrey Quays is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks.The precise boundaries of the area are somewhat amorphous, but it is generally considered to comprise the southern half of the Rotherhithe peninsula from Canada Water to South Dock; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.
Rotherhithe (/ ˈ r ɒ ð ər h aɪ ð / RODH-ər-hydhe) is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the east.
South Dock is one of two surviving docks in the former Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, London, England.It was built in 1807–1811 just south of the larger Greenland Dock, to which it is connected by a channel now known as Greenland Cut; it also has a lock giving access to the River Thames.
Surrey Docks North was an authorised underground railway station planned by London Underground but never built. It was to be located in Rotherhithe and named after the Surrey Commercial Docks in the London Borough of Southwark , in east London as a station on an unbuilt extension of the Jubilee line to Woolwich Arsenal .
The rough roads constrained traffic so a branch of the Grand Surrey Canal was proposed as a route from the Thames to Portsmouth. The canal was built from Surrey Commercial Docks to Peckham before the builders ran out of funds in 1826. The abbreviated canal was used to ship soft wood for construction and even though the canal was drained and ...
Southwark is thought to have become a burh in 886. The area appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 within the hundred of Brixton as held by several Surrey manors. [22] The ancient borough of Southwark, enfranchised in 1295, initially consisted of the pre-existing Surrey parishes of St George the Martyr, St Olave, St Margaret and St Mary. [36]