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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
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 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.
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 .
Russia Dock Woodland is a long narrow park in Rotherhithe, London, created by the infilling of one of the former Surrey Commercial Docks. The former Russia Dock was originally used for the importing of softwood timber from Norway, Russia and Sweden. Known as "deal wood", it was mostly used for newsprint and for manufacturing furniture.
The site is in the northern end of the former Surrey Commercial Docks. The pond is a small part of the much larger former Lavender Pond, where timber was floated to prevent it drying and cracking. In 1928 the entrance to the pond was blocked when the Port of London Authority built the Pumphouse on the site to control the water levels in Surrey ...