Deptford Wharf

51°29′30″N 0°01′54″W / 51.491769°N 0.031789°W / 51.491769; -0.031789

Ordnance Survey of Deptford Wharf 1914
Excerpt of the painting A view from the waters of Messrs Barnard and Dudman's Shipyard, Deptford by John Cleveley, exhibited by The Society of Artists, 1774

Deptford Wharf in London, United Kingdom, is on the Thames Path southeast of South Dock Marina, across the culverted mouth of the Earl's Sluice and north of Aragon Tower. In the late 18th and early 19th century this area was used for shipbuilding with several building slips. With the coming of the railway in 1848 Deptford wharf and docks were used to import coal and for other goods. The housing here, completed in 1992, is on the site of former railway sidings and riverside wharves.[1][2]

  1. ^ Plaque at entrance to Tariff Crescent
  2. ^ Banbury, Philip (1971). Shipbuilders of the Thames and Medway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 127. ISBN 0715349961.