47-581: North Greenwich may refer to: Current uses Greenwich Peninsula , formerly known as East Greenwich and now known as "North Greenwich" (this should not be confused with North Greenwich, Isle of Dogs) North Greenwich tube station The O2 (Arena), also (rarely and in most formal usage) known as the North Greenwich Arena North Greenwich bus station North Greenwich Pier North Greenwich, Isle of Dogs , London
94-864: A cable car over the River Thames just before the 2012 Summer Olympics began. This runs from a riverside station south-east of the O 2 over the river to the Royal Victoria Dock west of the ExCeL Centre . Adjacent to the cable car terminus was a large temporary building housing the London Soccer Dome, formerly the David Beckham Academy . This opened in 2005 but closed in 2014, with the main structures being dismantled, transported and re-erected in Southend ;
141-453: A 19th-century name for an locality of the Isle of Dogs Defunct meaning North Greenwich railway station , a disused station that served the above area North Greenwich (football ground) , a now defunct stadium that was occupied by Millwall Athletic F.C. between 1901–1910 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
188-614: A luxury housing complex called Jamestown Harbour over the Blackwall Basin , designed by WCEC Architects for the Wates Group and was completed by 1985. Jamestown Harbour was one of the first housing developments of the London Docklands . With its brick-built warehouse-style exteriors and distinctive blue and red balconies, it was designed to recreate the appearance of traditional river and dockside warehouses. In
235-543: A public sculpture trail spanning the River Thames .) Two phases of Greenwich Millennium Village , a mixed-tenure residential development designed by architect Ralph Erskine , with a primary school, a medical centre, a nature reserve with associated education centre have been completed. A Holiday Inn hotel was also built nearby, and the Greenwich Yacht Club was relocated to a new site south-east of
282-629: Is an area of Greenwich in South East London , England . It is bounded on three sides by a loop of the Thames , between the Isle of Dogs to the west and Silvertown to the east. To the south is the rest of Greenwich, to the south-east is Charlton . Formerly known as Greenwich Marshes and as Bugsby's Marshes , it became known as East Greenwich as it developed in the 19th century, but more recently has been called North Greenwich due to
329-579: Is now being developed with new homes at Peninsula Riverside, and Parkside Peninsula Quays. The redevelopment of Greenwich Peninsula is planned to take around 20 years. The improved access to the peninsula from Canary Wharf , the City and the West End via the Jubilee line has increased the prospects for continued residential regeneration . Blackwall, London Blackwall is an area of Poplar , in
376-554: Is still retained as a working wharf , this has special status by the Mayor of London and the Port of London Authority (PLA) as a safeguarded wharf . It is run by Cory Riverside Energy who also managed the Reuse and Recycling Centre which is next to the wharf and for the transportation of waste by barge along the River Thames. The 1980s, Blackwall saw the area first redevelopment project,
423-585: The London Borough of Tower Hamlets , East London . The neighbourhood includes Leamouth and the Coldharbour conservation area . The area takes its name from a historic stretch of riverside wall built along an outside curve of the Thames , to protect the area from flooding. Along with the rest of Poplar, Blackwall has its origin in the Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney . While mostly residential,
470-553: The Middle Ages . Having never been an administrative unit, the area lacks formal definition, but can be broadly described as the part of Poplar close to the Thames on the north-east part of the Isle of Dogs peninsula extending eastward to the confluence of the Thames and Lea . Blackwall gives its name to Blackwall Reach , the stretch of the Thames east of the Isle of Dogs. Blackwall Reach gives its name to Blackwall Point ,
517-529: The Poplar Dock and Blackwall Basin provide moorings for vessels. The area's significance derived from its position on an outside curve of the Thames, where currents slowed down, making it a sheltered spot useful to a range of shipping activities. This sheltered position was enhanced by the presence of the Blackwall Rock reef, though this could also be a danger to shipping. A further advantage of
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#1732776606695564-543: The 1870 clippers Blackadder and Hallowe'en built by Maudslay), boiler making, manufacture of Portland cement and linoleum (Bessemer's works became the Victoria linoleum works) and the South Metropolitan Gas company's huge East Greenwich Gas Works . Early in the 20th century came bronze manufacturers Delta Metals and works making asbestos and 'Molassine Meal' animal feed. For over 100 years
611-555: The 2000s, a residential development New Providence Wharf began to be built, which was designed and built by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Ballymore Group and saw the Ontario Tower and Providence Tower (now the Charrington Tower ) completed in 2007 and 2016 respectively. The former London and Blackwall Railway ran from Minories to Blackwall by way of Stepney , a distance of three and half miles. This
658-695: The A102 Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach to provide district heating to an eventual total of 15,700 properties on the peninsula. It is operated by Pinnacle Power for Greenwich Peninsula ESCO Limited. A 49 m high tower forms part of the energy centre, designed by C. F. Møller Architects , and was completed in 2016. The tower is clad in a complex metal cladding formed of hundreds of triangular patterns (initially titled 'Lenticular Dazzle Camouflage'), designed by British artist Conrad Shawcross . The tower cladding later featured as part of an art trail around north Greenwich, with
705-466: The Dome. North Greenwich tube station on the Jubilee line opened in 1999. It is one of the largest London Underground stations and also has a bus station . The North Greenwich Pier offering commuter boat services to other parts of London, both east and west, is located on the Thames on the east side of the peninsula. In 2004 outline planning permission was granted for further large-scale redevelopment of
752-534: The Greenwich Meridian line. In its early years, it apparently attracted a fairly elegant crowd, including William IV on an occasion connected with the opening or expansion of the burgeoning docks in the area. Its prime customer base was emigrants (mostly to Australia) who would wait here until they could board small steamers to take them to the large sea-going liners at Gravesend. In the days of sail, these passengers might have to wait for days or weeks until
799-558: The Thames from Blackwall to the Greenwich Peninsula . The Brunswick Wharf Power Station was built by Poplar Borough Council for the British Electricity Authority (BEA) in 1952, on the site of the former East India Export Dock. The power station was controversial due to potential air pollution in a densely populated part of London. Coldharbour is said to be "the sole remaining fragment of
846-411: The area was that it lay east of the Isle of Dogs, so loading and unloading here avoided that time and effort of sailing round that peninsula to London, while still being very close to the City of London. The area developed on the riverside, next to Poplar 's East Marsh and was known as Blackwall by at least the 14th century; taking its name from the colour of the river wall, built - with its stairs - in
893-536: The beginning of the 19th century. Leamouth Wharf was the site of the Samuda Brothers , Orchard House Yard and Thames Iron Works shipyards which were major centres of employment. In 1895, Arnold Hills the owner of the Thames Iron Works and foreman Dave Taylor set up a works team , Thames Ironworks F.C. The club would later be reformed as West Ham United F.C. Until 1987, Blackwall
940-597: The current corporate logo The O 2 and previously the Millennium Dome ), the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel and the western end of the Silvertown Tunnel , but the area is now being substantially redeveloped with new homes, offices, schools and parks. Ravensbourne University London , a media and design university built on the peninsula in 2010, neighbours The O 2 . The peninsula
987-537: The early 1990s has brought about some dramatic changes in the peninsula's topography. In 1997 the national regeneration agency English Partnerships (later renamed the Homes and Communities Agency, now Homes England ) purchased 1.21 square kilometres (300 acres) of disused land on the peninsula. The agency's investment of over £225m has helped to enhance the transport network and create new homes, commercial space and community facilities and to open up access to parkland along
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#17327766066951034-439: The establishment of a new set of Royal Gunpowder Magazines down river at Purfleet , which was opened in 1765. By 1771 gunpowder was no longer stored at Greenwich, though the buildings remained in situ for some decades afterwards. The peninsula was steadily industrialised from the early 19th century onwards. In 1857 a plan was presented to Parliament for a huge dock occupying much of the peninsula, connected to Greenwich Reach to
1081-599: The first Blackwall Frigates . The London and Blackwall Railway was one of the earliest railway systems in London, operating from 1840. it was also one of the smallest, running from Fenchurch Street Station in the city to Blackwall, a journey of less than twenty minutes, but which was very important to connect to Gravesend passenger boats. Near the Blackwall railway station was built the Brunswick Hotel, located on
1128-528: The largest in the world, was reduced to 8.9 million ft (250,000 m ) when it was damaged in the Silvertown explosion in 1917, but was still the largest in England until it was damaged again by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb in 1978. Originally manufacturing gas from coal , the plant began to manufacture gas from oil in the 1960s. Its peak production of 400 million ft per day (11.3 million m ) in
1175-488: The location of the North Greenwich Underground station (not to be confused with North Greenwich on the Isle of Dogs, at the north side of a former ferry from Greenwich). The peninsula's northernmost point on the riverside is known as Blackwall Point , and this may have led to the name Blackwall Peninsula sometimes being used in the late 20th century. Landmarks include The Dome (also known by
1222-457: The mid 1960s is believed to have been the largest of any single site in the world. The discovery of natural gas reserves in the North Sea soon rendered the complex obsolete. On the eastern shore was Blackwall Point Power Station ; the original station from the 1890s was replaced in the 1950s by a new station which ceased operation in about 1981. On the western shore, a large area including
1269-660: The northern tip of the Greenwich Peninsula , south of the Thames in Greenwich (and not in Blackwall). Blackwall was historically part of the Hamlet of Poplar , an autonomous area of the Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney in Middlesex . The Hamlet of Poplar became an independent parish in 1817. The civil parish of Poplar had a vestry committee which organised services such as poor relief and road maintenance. Indeed,
1316-428: The old hamlet of Blackwall" and "one of the last examples of the narrow streets which once characterised the river's perimeter". It is today largely residential and no longer has any industrial and maritime activities. The Coldharbour Conservation Area, designated in 1975 and then expanded in 2008, has several listed historic buildings as well as engineering structures once part of the former docks. Northumberland Wharf
1363-646: The opening of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1897, and had no passenger railway or London Underground service until the opening of North Greenwich tube station on the Jubilee line in 1999. Closure of the gasworks, power station and other industries in the late 20th century left much of the Greenwich Peninsula a barren wasteland, much of it heavily contaminated. In the early years of the 21st century, surviving industries were mainly concentrated on
1410-528: The peninsula was dominated by the gasworks which primarily produced town gas , also known as coal gas . The gasworks grew to 240 acres (0.97 km ), the largest in Europe , also producing coke, tar and chemicals as important secondary products. The site had its own extensive railway system and a large jetty used to unload coal and load coke. There were two huge gas holders , of 8.6 and 12.2 million ft (240,000 m and 345,000 m ). The larger holder, originally
1457-472: The peninsula, which was in operation by 1695, serving as the government's primary magazine (where newly milled powder was stored before it was sent out, on board specially equipped hoys ). Alongside the magazine were a wharf, a proof house and accommodation for the resident Storekeeper. From the early 18th century, however, local residents began petitioning Parliament for the magazine (and its dangerous contents in particular) to be removed; this eventually led to
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1504-486: The river. In addition to the construction of the Millennium Dome, new roads were built on the eastern side of the peninsula in anticipation of new developments. New riverside walkways, cycle paths and public artworks were also created, including Antony Gormley 's Quantum Cloud and Richard Wilson 's A Slice of Reality . (In 2015, these were among five North Greenwich artworks incorporated into The Line ,
1551-683: The site is intended for residential use. Approximately 400 m further south, at the western end of River Way, is the Pilot Inn public house , which, along with the adjacent housing terrace, is among the oldest remaining buildings on the peninsula. Central Park runs through the central spine of the peninsula, with the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park further south providing a haven for many different species of bird, plants and insects. A combined heat and power (CHP) energy centre has been constructed adjacent to and east of
1598-521: The site of the Victoria linoleum works later became the Victoria Deep Water Terminal in 1966, handling container traffic. At the southwestern end of the peninsula Enderby's Wharf was occupied by a succession of famous submarine cable companies from 1857 onwards, including Glass Elliot, W T Henley , Telcon, Submarine Cables Ltd, STC , Nortel and Alcatel . The peninsula remained relatively remote from central London until
1645-559: The site, including over 10,000 further homes, some facing the river or overlooking the park, 3,500,000 square feet (330,000 m ) of office space and the conversion of the Millennium Dome into an indoor arena, renamed The O 2 , which was used as a London 2012 venue. South of The O 2 , new public realms were created, Peninsula Square and Green Place . To the east of Peninsula Square is Ravensbourne University London , which relocated to Greenwich Peninsula in September 2010. In 2011,
1692-532: The title North Greenwich . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Greenwich&oldid=1229234981 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Greenwich Peninsula The Greenwich Peninsula
1739-636: The university's campus won an award in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards for London. From a shortlist of 55 schemes, the Ravensbourne building won the education and community category. To the south east of the square, the six storey 14 Pier Walk building houses offices for Transport for London . Adjacent to this is the 11 storey 6 Mitre Passage office building. New restaurants and shops have opened facing onto Peninsula Square and Green Place. Transport for London constructed
1786-462: The west and Bugsby's Reach to the east, but this came to nothing. Early industries included Henry Blakeley's Ordnance Works making heavy guns, with other sites making chemicals, submarine cables, iron boats, iron and steel. Henry Bessemer built a steel works in the early 1860s to supply the London shipbuilding industry, but this closed as a result of a fall in demand due to the financial crisis of 1866 . Later came oil mills, shipbuilding (for example
1833-579: The western side of the peninsula, between the river and the A102 Blackwall Tunnel southern approach road . They included Alcatel, a Tunnel Refiners/Amylum glucose plant (from 1976 until about 2008 part of Tate & Lyle ) which closed in 2009, and two large marine aggregate terminals on the Delta Metals and Victoria Deep Water Terminal sites. The second of the two gas holders was demolished in 2020. Public and private investment since
1880-524: The whole Isle of Dogs was until the late 20th century referred to as being in Poplar. In 1965, the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar merged with its neighbours to form the new London Borough of Tower Hamlets . Blackwall Yard became a major sea hub, and the district was a significant part of the Port of London , and involved with important voyages for over 400 years. Shipfitting and repair
1927-410: The winds were favourable; but by the end of the century the substitution of steam power and rail links on the south bank of the Thames greatly reduced the viability of the hotel. No evidence remains of either the hotel (demolished in the 1920s) or the railway station (demolished 1946); they stood between Jamestown Way and the Thames. The Blackwall Tunnel , opened in 1892–1897, carries road traffic under
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1974-523: The work given the title 'The Optic Cloak'. In 2016, construction started on new buildings for St Mary Magdalene Church of England School (part of the Koinonia Federation; the federation then operated at four Greenwich sites, two of which moved to the new building on completion in September 2018). The school is located at the corner of Millennium Way and John Harrison Way, and has sports facilities available for community use. The peninsula
2021-599: Was a centre of shipbuilding and repair. This activity principally included Blackwall Yard , the Orchard House Yard and the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company which included land in both Blankwall and Canning Town , which is east of the Lea in the old parish and borough of West Ham . The Blackwall Yard (two of whose former dry docks can still be seen around the present-day Reuters building) built
2068-669: Was authorised in 1836 as "The Commercial Railway", running close to Commercial Road in the East End of London to the Blackwall railway station . The areas major roads; the A1261 (Aspen Way) and the A102 Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road bring a significant degree of air pollution and community severance. London Buses routes D3 on west-east Blackwall Way, and D6, D7 and N550 on north-south Preston Road give local access to neighbouring Poplar, Leamouth ,
2115-450: Was drained by Dutch engineers in the 16th century, allowing it to be used as pasture land. In the 17th century, Blackwall Point (the northern tip of the peninsula, opposite Blackwall ) gained notoriety as a location where pirates ' corpses were hung in cages as a deterrent to other would-be pirates. In the 1690s the Board of Ordnance established a gunpowder magazine on the west side of
2162-641: Was taking place by 1485 and shipbuilding would take place in the area later too. In 1576, Martin Frobisher left Blackwall and landed at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island , claiming it for England (its first overseas possession ) in the name of Queen Elizabeth I . Frobisher was funded by the Muscovy Company seeking the North West Passage . In the early years of the 17th century the port
2209-635: Was the main departure point of the English colonisation of North America and the West Indies launched by the London Company . On 20 December 1606, three ships, Susan Constant , Godspeed and Discovery , sailed from Blackwall, landing in Virginia on 26 April 1607 to establish the first permanent English settlement, Jamestown . The East and West India Docks were constructed at
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