List of locations in the Port of London

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.

Many of the docks closed after the mass uptake of containerisation changed the face of the industry and bringing about an end to an era, and a demise to the occupation of the docker as it then was.

Those marked with a † have at present the status of a safeguarded wharf. Those in italics are no longer used for port or river transit related activities. Further remarks are made in brackets, including in some cases the present operator or cargo handled.

In 1937 at the height of London's trade it is estimated that there were around 1700 wharves between Brentford and Gravesend.[1] Today there are around 70 active terminals, each generally handling much greater volumes. Much of the cargo and commodities handling by the Port of London takes place in the downstream stretches of the Thames beyond Greater London, on the banks of south Essex (Thurrock) and north Kent. The Port of London Authority controls operations from its base in Gravesend. The main container terminal is currently at Tilbury, though in 2008 construction began on the London Gateway project, which will become the largest single component of the Port of London when completed.

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Barges carrying refuse on the river at Battersea, 2007
Tilbury Grain Terminal, 2010
Construction of London Gateway under way, 2010

South bank

Kew

Mortlake and Barnes

Stag Brewery, Mortlake

(Chiswick Bridge)

(Barnes Railway Bridge)

(Hammersmith Bridge)

Putney

(Putney Bridge)

(Fulham Railway Bridge)

Wandsworth

Pier Wharf, Wandsworth, 2010

(Wandsworth Bridge)

Battersea

Ransome's Dock, 2008
Battersea Power Station showing the coaling pier, 1986

(Battersea Railway Bridge)

(Battersea Bridge)

(Albert Bridge)
(Chelsea Bridge)

(Grosvenor Bridge)

Vauxhall and Lambeth

(Vauxhall Bridge)

(Lambeth Bridge)
(Westminster Bridge)

(Hungerford Bridge)

Southwark

The Golden Hind at St Mary Overie Dock in 2007

(Waterloo Bridge)

(Blackfriars Bridge)
(Blackfriars Railway Bridge)

(Millennium Bridge)

(Southwark Bridge)

(Cannon Street Railway Bridge)

Upper Pool

See also: Pool of London
Chamberlain's Wharf (now London Bridge Hospital), Hay's Wharf Offices, Topping's Wharf and Sun Wharf in the 1960s

(London Bridge)

(Tower Bridge)

Bermondsey

St Saviour's Dock (view north to River Thames).
Cherry Garden Pier, Bermondsey

Rotherhithe

Thames Tunnel Mills, 2009
Greenland Dock in 1927
Greenland Pier in 2005, with Canary Wharf in the background
Boat-lifting crane, South Dock

(Rotherhithe Tunnel)

Deptford and Deptford Creek

The Thames Path interrupted by Convoys Wharf
Ships unloading at Brewery Wharf, Deptford Creek in 2009

Greenwich

Thames Craft Dry Docking, boatyard at Badcock's Wharves, 2010

(Greenwich foot tunnel)

Greenwich Peninsula

Cable loading gear preserved on Enderby's Wharf, 2007. In the distance is Greenwich Power Station.
Tunnel Glucose on Greenwich Peninsula, 2000

(Blackwall Tunnel)

New Charlton

Aggregate conveyor, Angerstein Wharf

Woolwich

Woolwich Ferry, looking south west towards Woolwich

Belvedere, Erith and Crayford Ness

Belvedere Incinerator from the Thames. Refuse barges are moored on the quay.
The Thames at Erith. Straight ahead is the ADM oil seed mill.

Dartford, Greenhithe and Swanscombe

Container ship Aquiline berthed at Dartford International Freight Terminal

(Dartford Crossing)

Northfleet and Gravesend

Shipping at Gravesend with Tilbury Power Station in the background. The large Cobelfret vessel is heading to Ford at Dagenham
The Gravesend Canal Basin - the canal and locks are under restoration

Cliffe

Below here lie the Medway ports including Thamesport, a container port on the site of BP's Kent oil refinery on the Isle of Grain and Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey. These are not part of the Port of London.

North bank

Isleworth

Brentford and Strand-on-the-Green

(Kew Bridge)

(Kew Railway Bridge)

Chiswick

(Chiswick Bridge)
(Barnes Railway Bridge)

Hammersmith

(Hammersmith Bridge)

Fulham and Sands End

Palace Wharf (left), Crabtree Wharf and Crabtree Drawdock, 2010
Swedish Wharf, Comley's Wharf and Fulham Wharf, Fulham, 2006

(Putney Bridge)

(Fulham Railway Bridge)

(Wandsworth Bridge)

(Battersea Railway Bridge)

Chelsea

Lots Road Power Station, 2008

(Albert Bridge)

Westminster and City of London

(Chelsea Bridge)

(Grosvenor Bridge)

(Vauxhall Bridge)

(Lambeth Bridge)
(Westminster Bridge)

(Hungerford Bridge)

(Waterloo Bridge)

(Blackfriars Bridge)
(Blackfriars Railway Bridge)

(Millennium Bridge)

The Queenhithe riverside (upstream to the left; Queenhithe dock on right) from Bankside

(Southwark Bridge)

Walbrook Wharf in the City of London in 2010

(Cannon Street Railway Bridge)

Upper Pool

A ship berths at London Bridge Wharf in the busy Upper Pool in 1962

(London Bridge)

(Tower Bridge)

Wapping and Shadwell

London Docks in 1831
King Henry's Wharves, 2006
Shadwell Basin in 2007

(Hermitage entrance to London Docks)

(Wapping entrance to London Docks)

(Shadwell New Entrance to Shadwell Basin and London Docks)

Ratcliff and Limehouse

Limehouse Basin looking north.
Looking north east along the Limehouse Cut.

Millwall

A Thames Clipper catamaran calls at Canary Wharf Pier
West India and Millwall Docks, 1899. East India Docks and Blackwall Yard top right.
Millwall Inner Dock facing towards Canary Wharf
The SS Great Eastern's launch ramp at Millwall.

(site of original West India Docks Limehouse Lower Entrance) [49]

(site of original Millwall Dock entrance) [51]

(Greenwich Foot Tunnel)

Cubitt Town

Millwall Wharf and Cubitt Town Wharf in 1974; the vacant site below is London Yard. Across the river are the silos of Tunnel Refineries, and Enderby's Wharf.
The Greek destroyer Thyella after launch at Yarrow's, 1906

Blackwall and Leamouth

Brunswick Wharf power station, 1984
East India Dock entrance basin, 2006

( Bow Creek)

Canning Town

(site of original upper entrance to Royal Victoria Dock)

Silvertown

Spiller's Millennium Mills, Victoria Dock, 1934. Behind is the Graving Dock
Tate & Lyle syrup refinery, Plaistow Wharf, 2009
Tate & Lyle refinery, Silvertown, in 2006
Royal Albert Dock, 1973
The Barking Creek tidal barrier
A Cobelfret Ferry at Ford's Dagenham terminal in 2006
Bulk unloading equipment at West Thurrock Jetty, 2010
Procter & Gamble soap works, West Thurrock, 2009

North Woolwich

Beckton

Barking Creek

The following wharves are located on the lower section of the River Roding, at Creekmouth.

Creekmouth

Dagenham Dock

Rainham

Purfleet

Container ship Carpathia unloading at Northfleet Hope terminal, Tilbury
A Panamax coal ship berths by Tilbury Power Station
MV Neuburg Geeststroom heading downstream past Coryton Refinery, 2007

(Dartford Crossing)

West Thurrock and Grays

Tilbury

See Port of Tilbury for the main dock system.

Shell Haven, Coryton, Canvey Island and Southend

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