This is a list of about 680 former or extant wharves, docks, piers, terminals, etc. of the Port of London, the majority of which lie on the Tideway of the River Thames, listed from upstream to downstream.
Many of the docks closed after the mass uptake of containerisation changed the face of the industry and bringing about an end to an era, and a demise to the occupation of the docker as it then was.
Those marked with a † have at present the status of a safeguarded wharf. Those in italics are no longer used for port or river transit related activities. Further remarks are made in brackets, including in some cases the present operator or cargo handled.
It is estimated that in 1937, at the height of London's trade, there were around 1,700 wharves between Brentford and Gravesend. Today there are around 70 active terminals, each generally handling much greater volumes. Much of the cargo and commodities handling by the Port of London takes place in the downstream stretches of the Thames beyond Greater London, on the banks of south Essex (Thurrock) and north Kent. The Port of London Authority controls operations from its base in Gravesend. The main container terminal is currently at Tilbury, though in 2008 construction began on the London Gateway project, which will become the largest single component of the Port of London when completed.
South bank
Kew Kew Gardens Pier
Mortlake and Barnes
(Chiswick Bridge) Stag Brewery St Mary's Wharf site of Mortlake Power Station Mortlake Wharf (Barnes Railway Bridge) Small Profits Draw Dock (Hammersmith Bridge) Harrod's Wharf
Putney Putney Pier (TfL river service) (Putney Bridge) Putney Wharf Douglas Wharf Spaldings Wharf (Fulham Railway Bridge)
Wandsworth
River Wandle Feathers Wharf Western Riverside (solid waste transfer station) † Wandsworth Riverside Quarter Pier (TfL river service) Pier Wharf † (Wandsworth Bridge)
Battersea
Sherwood Wharf St Mary's Wandsworth Pier, site of Manbre & Gartons works (sugars) site of original Price's Candles works Shell Wharf Bridges Wharf Oyster Wharf site of jetty for Lombard Road Power Station Regent Wharf (Battersea Railway Bridge) site of original Morgan Crucible Company works (Battersea Bridge) site of C & J Fields candle works Ransomes Dock site of Albert Bridge flour mills (Albert Bridge) (Chelsea Bridge) Chelsea Bridge Wharf Battersea Wharf (Grosvenor Bridge) former Battersea Power Station The Battersea Barge Cringle Dock † Metro Greenham (RMC Battersea) †
Vauxhall and Lambeth Middle Wharf (Cemex Vauxhall) † Prescot Wharf Bourne Valley Wharf St George Wharf (Vauxhall Bridge) Tamesis Dock White Hart Draw Dock (river access under the Albert Embankment) site of Royal Doulton pottery Lambeth River fire station (Lambeth Bridge) Lambeth Pier (Westminster Bridge) Acre Wharf (now County Hall) Waterloo Millennium Pier (TfL river service) College Wharf India Store Depot Bangor Wharf (Hungerford Bridge)
Southwark
Festival Pier (TfL river service) (Waterloo Bridge) Old Shot Tower Wharf Commercial Wharf Waterloo Dock New Barge House Wharf Old Jamaica Wharf Old Bull Stairs Wharf Greystone Lane Wharf Jamaica Wharf Blackfriars Bridge Wharf (Blackfriars Bridge) (Blackfriars Railway Bridge) Foundry Wharf Falcon Draw Dock Holland Wharf Iron Wharf Honduras Wharf Willow Wharf Royal George Wharf former Bankside Power Station Travers & Crown Wharf Queen's Wharf Phoenix Wharf (Millennium Bridge) Devonshire Wharf Globe Wharf British Lion Wharf Greenmoor Wharf Stone Wharf Bankside Pier/Jetty (TfL river service) Emmerson Wharf Windsor Wharf Benbow Wharf Sturtivant Wharf Bear Wharf Bear Garden Wharf St Helen's Wharf Cast Iron Wharf Scott's Wharf Universal Wharf (Southwark Bridge) Imperial Wharf Southwark Wharf Bridge Wharf Ceylon Wharf Red Lion Wharf Lion Wharf Carey's Wharf Barclay's Brewery Bank End Wharf (Cannon Street Railway Bridge) South Eastern Wharf Horseshoe Wharf Clink Wharf Winchester Wharf Phoenix Wharf Pickfords Wharf St Mary Overie Dock West Kent Wharf Hibernia Wharf
Upper Pool
(London Bridge) Fenning's Wharf Sun Wharf Topping's Wharf St Olaf House (Hay's Wharf offices) Chamberlain's Wharf Cotton's Wharf Humphery's Wharf London Bridge City Pier/Hays Wharf Pier (TfL river service) Hay's Dock and Wharf Wilson's Wharf Griffin's Wharf South Thames Wharf Gun & Shot Wharves Symon's Wharf Stanton's Wharf St Olave's Wharf Pickle Herring Wharf Mark Brown's Wharf Tower Bridge Wharf (Tower Bridge)
Bermondsey
Burtt's Portland Wharf Anchor Brewhouse Butler's Wharf Horselydown Wharf Coventry's Wharf Cole's Upper and Lower Wharves Newell's Wharf Shad Thames St Saviour's DockEllmers & Werner, p. 146 St Andrew's Wharf Meriton's Wharf, later New Concordia Wharf Reed's Wharf Uveco Wharf Deverell's Wharf Downing's Wharf Reed's Lower Wharf Redman's Wharf Springall's Wharf Adlard's Wharf Brunswick Wharf, later Sterling Wharf Seaborne Coal Wharf London Grist Mills East Lane Wharf Chamber's Wharves Bond's Wharf Fountain Dock Darnell's Wharf Ellmers & Werner, p. 140 Fountain Stairs Wharf Powell's Wharf Farrand's Wharf Cherry Garden Wharf Cherry Garden Pier Lucas and Spencer's Wharf
Rotherhithe
Corbett's Wharf National Wharf Platform Wharf Platform Sufferance Wharf Braithwaite & Dean's Wharf Ellmers & Werner, p. 132 Pace's Wharf Pocock's Barge Yard Cochin Wharf Yardley's Wharf Matthew's Wharf Rotherhithe Wharf Cannon Wharf Abbot's Wharf Gordon's Wharf Prince's Wharf Carr's Wharf Beard's Wharf East India Wharf Bombay Wharf Hope Wharf Thames Tunnel Mills Grice's Wharf Claydon's Wharf Genisi's Wharf Ellmers & Werner, p. 124 Brandram's Wharf Charles Hay's Barge Yard Ellmers & Werner, p. 124 Fisher's Sufferance Wharf Cumberland Wharf Carolina Wharf Ransome's Wharf Norway Wharf Clarence Wharf (Rotherhithe Tunnel) Dinorwic Wharf Surrey Commercial Docks Surrey Commercial Wharf Bull Head Wharf King and Queen Wharf Bellamy's Wharf Prince's Wharf Lower King and Queen Wharf Upper Globe Wharf (rice); once Upper Globe Dock Shipyard Normandy Wharf Crown Lead Works Horseferry Wharf Grand Surrey Wharf Lavender Dock shipyard, later Lavender Wharf (Castrol) Lavender Lock entrance to Lavender Pond Pageant Wharf Upper Ordnance Wharf (Enthoven Lead Works) Sunderland Wharf Cuckold's Point, once site of Limehouse Hole ferry Canada Wharf, later Columbia Wharf, Nelson Dock Pier Nelson Dry Dock Danzig Wharf Albion Wharf Somerset Wharf Lawrence's Wharf Durand's Wharf Trinity Wharf Acorn Wharf, later South Wharf Barnard's Wharf, later Odessa Wharf Commercial Dock Pier later Commercial Pier Wharf Atkin's Wharf, Redriff Wharf, later New Caledonian Wharf Greenland DockEllmers & Werner, p. 102 Greenland Dock Pier South Dock Marina St George's Wharf later site of Manganese Bronze and Brass works
Deptford and Deptford Creek
Deadman's Dock, later Deadman's Wharf, later Deptford Wharf site of Royal Victoria Victualling Yard site of Deptford Supply Reserve Depot, part of the Deptford Dockyard Ellmers & Werner, p. 92 later the Foreign Cattle Market, later Convoy's Wharf † Palmer's Wharf Watergate Stairs, site of Deptford Ferry site of Payne's Paper Wharf site of Borthwick's Cold Stores site of Deptford Power Station site of The Stowage, East India Company shipyard, later General Steam Navigation Co's Deptford Green Dockyard Deptford CreekEllmers & Werner, p. 88 Brewery Wharf (active aggregate wharf) †
Greenwich
Phoenix Wharf (Phoenix Gas Light & Coke Co), later Granophast Wharf Dreadnought Yard (originally J & G Rennie's shipyard) Victoria & Norway Wharf site of Greenwich Vehicular Ferry Talbot's Wharf Billingsgate Dock Dodd's Wharf (Greenwich foot tunnel) Greenwich Pier (TfL river service) former Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital (now part of University of Greenwich) former Royal Naval College, now National Maritime Museum High Bridge Wharf Greenwich Power Station Crowley's Wharf Port of London Wharf Union Wharf Greenwich Wharf Lovell’s Wharf (status as a safeguarded wharf now lost) Granite Wharf (status as a safeguarded wharf now lost) Badcock's Wharves Piper's Wharf, Thames craft dry docking
Greenwich Peninsula
Enderby's Wharf (originally the rope works of a whaling company, subsequently a submarine cable works owned by a succession of firms from Glass Elliot (1857) including STC, currently Alcatel) Tunnel Glucose † (formerly Thames Soap and Candle Works) Morden Wharf Primrose Wharf Bay Wharf (site of Maudslay Son & Field shipyard) Victoria Deep Water Terminal (Hanson Aggregates; originally Bessemer's steel works; Victoria linoleum; container terminal until the 1990s) † Imperial Wharf Sussex Wharf Delta/Blackwall Wharf(originally Delta Metals brass, bronze etc. works) (major aggregates wharf now lost - redeveloped as part of the Greenwich Peninsula masterplan) Draw dock Ordnance Wharf (originally Blakely's Ordnance Works making heavy guns) (Blackwall Tunnel) site of Blackwall Point dry dock Blackwall Point site of South Metropolitan Gas Co's East Greenwich Gas Works Queen Elizabeth II Pier (TfL river service) on site of gas works coaling jetty Phoenix Wharf site of Blackwall Point Power Station
New Charlton
Peartree Wharf Angerstein Wharf † (aggregates wharf with rail head) Murphy's Wharf (Tarmac, major existing aggregates terminal)† Cory's Barge Works Charlton Parish Wharf Durham Coal Wharf Charlton Wharf Charlton Ballast Wharf Riverside Wharf † (Tarmac) Telegraph Wharf Barrier Gardens Pier (Port of London Authority) Thames Barrier
Woolwich
Warspite Wharf (site of Siemens Brothers telegraph works) Long's Wharf Trinity Wharf site of Woolwich Dockyard Royal Dockyard Wharf Parish Wharf Woolwich Free Ferry southern landing stage site of Woolwich Power Station Woolwich Arsenal Pier (TfL river service) site of Woolwich Arsenal Margaret or Tripcock Ness Cross Ness Crown Wharf (off Globe Lane)
Belvedere, Erith and Crayford Ness
Belvedere Incinerator site of Belvedere Power Station Borax Wharf/Manor Wharf † Mulberry Wharf † Jenningtree Point Pioneer Wharf † Albion Wharf † (includes numerous jetties and landing stages) RMC Erith (jetty and landing stages) † site of BICC cable works ADM Erith Ballast Wharf Chalk Farm Wharf Erith Pier (formerly in commercial use, now rebuilt for leisure) Garden Wharf Railway Wharf (RMC) † Standard Wharf † European Metal Recycling Crayford Ness
Dartford, Greenhithe and Swanscombe
River Darent Littlebrook Power Station (Dartford Crossing) Thames Europort CdMR Dartford (ro-ro ferry terminal). Johnson's Wharf (aggregates) Globe Wharf Bell Wharf
Northfleet and Gravesend
Broadness Northfleet Wharf Britannia Terminal Seacon Terminals Tower Wharf (steel, forest products) Robin's Wharf Brett Aggregates Bevan's Wharf Northfleet Terminal (Kimberly-Clark) Red Lion Wharf Bowater's Wharf Fletchers Wharf, Gravesend Baltic Wharf West Street Pier Commercial Wharf Town Wharf, Gravesend Gravesend–Tilbury Ferry landing stages Town Pier, Gravesend Royal Terrace Pier and landing stage, Gravesend (headquarters of the Port of London Authority) Custom House Pier, Gravesend Gravesend Canal Basin Denton Wharf and Jetty, Gravesend (owned by the Port of London Authority and main base for PLA vessels) Jetty (Metropolitan Police training centre) Clubb's Marine Terminal (sea-dredged aggregates)
Cliffe North Sea Terminal (sea-dredged aggregates) Lower Hope Point Yantlet Creek
Below here lie the Medway ports including Thamesport, a container port on the site of BP's Kent oil refinery on the Isle of Grain and Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey. These are not part of the Port of London.
North bank