Piers · London
Angerstein Wharf
Angerstein Wharf is a pier in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Best time of year
- Summer
- Nearest railway station
- West Silvertown · 0.9 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Angerstein Wharf is a seaside pier on the coast of London — Victorian pleasure architecture on stilts, still standing. It sits within the Greenwich and Woolwich parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is West Silvertown, about 0.9 km away. Postcode area SE10.
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From the Wikipedia article
Angerstein Wharf is an industrial area and location of a marine construction aggregate and an associated cement facility and freight station in the Port of London, operated by the Cemex company, located on the south bank of the Bugsby's Reach of the River Thames in both Greenwich and Charlton, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It has safeguarded wharf status.
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Background
History
The wharf was named after John Julius Angerstein (1732–1823), a local land owner who made his fortune in the East Indian trade as well as having West Indian business links, including a third share in a slave plantation in Grenada. His art collection was bought in 1824 to form the nucleus of the National Gallery, London. He built a 1 mi long railway line from the line that runs from to . When originally built, the railway junction faced Blackheath but the junction now faces Charlton station. The branch was leased to the South Eastern Railway from 30 October 1852 to 1898 when they bought it outright. The company established its signal works at the location although according to an 1895 map…
Visiting
Since 1990 the site has been used almost exclusively used for loading and unloading of sea-dredged aggregates; as of 2014, the operator was Aggregate Industries. The Thames Path passes by Angerstein Wharf, with several conveyors passing over it, and dust of cement and sand covering part of it. <gallery widths="160" heights="160"> File:Aggregate train from Angerstein Wharf - geograph.org.uk - 513188.jpg|Aggregates train from the wharf, 2007 File:Angerstein Wharf 2 Charlton.jpg|Conveyors handling cargoes of bulk aggregate, 2010 File:2018 Charlton Riverside 17.jpg|Aggregate Industries, 2018 File:2018 Charlton Riverside 22.jpg|Silos, 2018 File:2018 Charlton Riverside 15.jpg|Thames Path at…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.4951, 0.0212
- District
- Greenwich
- Parish
- Greenwich, unparished area
- Postcode
- SE10 0BW
- Parliamentary constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich
- Nearest railway station
- West Silvertown — 0.9 km
- Official site
- www.tcv.org.uk
Sources
- osm: w40023623 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Angerstein Wharf (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Angerstein Wharf?
- Angerstein Wharf is in London, United Kingdom (postcode SE10 0BW), in the parish of Greenwich, unparished area.
- Is Angerstein Wharf free to visit?
- Yes, Angerstein Wharf is free to enter.
- How do I get to Angerstein Wharf?
- The nearest railway station is West Silvertown, about 0.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SE10 0BW.