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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
Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks in South London and Wapping and the Isle of Dogs in the East End of London on 7 September 1940: At the Commercial Dock, Rotherhithe, there were multi-storey warehouses designed to store grain and seeds. Greenland Dock, Surrey Quays in the 1990s: Greenland Dock Pier and view of Canary Wharf
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.
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.
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.
The rail link was lost in the early 1960s, in a period when all usage of the Surrey Docks was in decline following the move to larger vessels and to containerised transport of goods. Eventually this led to the Deptford docks being filled in and the area being redeveloped, with the emphasis being on housing. Main article : Surrey Commercial Docks
Surrey Quays is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located in Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark. [3] Situated in Travelcard Zone 2 , the next station to the north is Canada Water ; to the south, the line splits into branches to Clapham Junction , Crystal Palace , New Cross and West Croydon .
The site on which the destination is built was originally a dock. However, as the majority of Surrey Docks shipyards closed in the early 1970s, due to a general decline, the land was left abandoned and the docks filled in. [5] It was not until the London Docklands Development Corporation began to redevelop the area that the land found a new lease of life.