Thamesmead

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Post to the east Thamesmead

Courtland Grove

 housing development c1987, all houses have dentilled pediments over gables and doorways, and some houses have amazing wooden latticework. 

Crossway

Built 1976-9 in the modes of the later 1970s. Private housing by New Ideal Homes

Crossway Canal

The bridge at the end of the canal gives a view of the lake and its islands.

At Southmere the canal is dammed by a weir to form a small lake, and the area around here is most attractive. 

Crossway Lake.

lake, with its masses of reeds, is highly attractive.

Tump 39 the larger f two islands, being. it is intended that the tump will become a nature study area.

narrow footpath along the west and south sides of the lake, from The Cascade to Templar Drive, but it is difficult to follow in parts because of trees and undergrowth.

Square Tump brick walls of the tumporiginally an Arsenal storage area of c 1890.

Crossway Lane

Crossway Park

a large grassed park around the Crossway Canal. Before the canal continues under Eastern Way and into Southmere,

Cascade

Island Tump 38

intriguing patterns of the tubular steel used at both ends of The Cascade.

Drake Crescent

a large crescent and central block c1989, strongly urban in character

Lakeview

Fieldfare Road

Footpath between Tump 70 and Tump 71

Grange Crescemt

Tump 48 within the semi-circle of Grange Crescent is Tump 48. A small green has been made from the hollow of the tump. This is perhaps the least interesting of all the tump conversions.

Lakeview

This housing section, designed by Phippen, Randal & Parkes c1987, comprising Pointer Close and Eastgate Close, conveys something of the atmosphere of an enclosed Italian village. Two of the housing terraces arch across the Crossway Canal, just before it joins Crossway Lake.

Longmead

Built 1977-80. modes of the later 1970s

Manor Close

This housing section, completed 1990, has a rather formal pattern, but there is an attractive sense of enclosure. It incorporates a small local centre, and a community centre, a temple-like building which closes the view from the south. Note the repetitive pattern of projecting white piers in the houses and the community centre. It terminates in a crescent around a green, in a pleasant rural setting around Harrow Canal.

Manor Way.

This footpath leads for about a kilometre from the Thameside Walk down to the Spine Road. The most attractive section is roughly midway where it runs alongside Harrow Canal.

battery of four British cannon of 1830

Manorway Gardens

Built 1978-82, by the G.L.C., and typical of planning policies of the later 1970s. Quite small,  200 dwellings. Laid out around the twin foci of Manorway Green and a small lake. 

Manorway Green an attractive small park which incorporates the mound of Tump 47 with its hollow converted into an amphitheatre; the area all around here is rural and most attractive.

Moat Gardens

Built 1978-81. by the G.L.C., and typical of planning policies of the later 1970s. Quite small, c. 200 dwellings, laid out around the twin foci of Manorway Green and a small lake. 

Southmere Lake

The lake stretching out to a park on the far horizon, is of an eye-catching breadth, generous enough for sailing and boating, and of sufficient scale to provide a serene foil to the four point blocks on the water's edge. largest lake in Thamesmead. Boat Club and restaurants, an attractive group by the G.L.C. Parks Department, 1977-80.

Lakeside Centre is a popular for location for yachting, sailboarding, canoeing and fishing, and has a popular restaurant and bar.

Summerton Way

Riverside Golf Course, opened 1993 in a wild setting. It has a pleasant clubhouse, vaguely high-tech with prominent use of green, with a verandah and balcony framed by green posts extending right round the building. From the entrance a footpath leads to the Thames

Templar Drive

a less dramatic development immediately to the east, by the same architects as Lakeside c1989, incorporates a jetty on the lake.

Thames side

Start of Green Chain Walk. Windmill sculpture on the promenade.

Thamesbank Place

This development c 1988 in 'Docklands vernacular' style has a strong urban quality, with its access road passing a series of compact closes and terminating in a crescent. Its location is outstanding, with the river to the north and the canal leading to Crossway Lake to the east..

Thamesmead Marshes.

1,700 acres of marshland on 20ft bed of peat

Thamesmead Pier, owned by Trust

Tump 52 This tump, surrounded by a moat and partly by its old brick wall, has been converted in quite an interesting way, with stockades enclosing children's playgrounds. On the east side of the tump is a canal junction, a pleasant spot where the waters of Harrow Canal, Crossway Canal and the moat meet.