Deptford Creek - Creek Road, London, UK
N 51° 28.884 W 000° 00.960
30U E 707190 N 5707583
This oval-shaped, green plaque is attached to a wall of the bridge control room on the north side of Creek Road.
Waymark Code: WMMHPW
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/24/2014
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The plaque, erected by the Greenwich and Deptford History Trail, tells us:
Greenwich and Deptford
Deptford Creek
This is the mouth of the River
Ravensbourne. First bridged in
1804. The Doomsday Book of 1086
noted many watermills nearby.
History Trail
The Creekside Centre website tells us:
Deptford - ‘Deep Ford’ - was named after its tidal Creek. As the tide falls each day it exposes almost a kilometre of riverbed providing an opportunity for adventure and education that can’t be found anywhere else in London.
The Creek has a long history of fishing, ship building and dockyards. Trades and industries from chemical works to tidal mills and slaughterhouses have all used its banks. London’s first passenger railway crosses it and Bazelgette’s famous sewage pumping station is alongside it.