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Kentlea Road, LONDON, SE28 0JX

Battery Road is the main road through the Gallions Park Eco estate. It leads around this rectangular garden area.

As seen from Battery Road. In the background is Gallions Hill.

New housing in Thamesmead, South East London. Thamesmead is a new town, established in the late 1960s on reclaimed marshland. The town continues to grow, and is home to up to 50,000 people.

On Battery Road, within Thamesmead Ecopark.

A cycle path in Thamesmead, South East London. Thamesmead is a new town which has been developed since the late 1960s, on reclaimed marshland.

Photographed from the visitor's car park. It was as far as I wanted to go...

Large parts of Thamesmead are on land originally contaminated by the activities of the former Woolwich Royal Arsenal. The land was first recovered by the GLC for residential use in the 1960s. As part of this redevelopment a system of canals and lakes were built in order to store and manage surface water run-off prior to its discharge into the River Thames. As part of the current development Tilfen Land Limited have retained and rebuilt sections of the old system, again to manage surface water run-off, including the provision of flood storage areas, but also to provide an ecology corridor and a public amenity through the residential areas. There is a .pdf file describing the scheme on Tilfen's website here http://www.tilfenland.co.uk/pdf/reshapingenvironments.pdf This image was taken from the east side of Delisle Road with New Acres Road on the right. It is difficult to categorize the photo on the Geograph site in the sense that it is not an old navigable canal, nor a river, but an artificial drainage cut. "Drain" in the sense of a fenland drain therefore seems most suitable.

Gallions Hill is a sixty feet high landmark created from "recycled excavated material". A spiral path leads to the summit which provides widespread views up and down the Thames. To the south the views are only as far as the ridge between Shooters Hill, Plumstead Common, Bostall Heath and Lesnes Abbey Woods. The large white building in the distance is known as 'Iron Mountain' - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2990467

Gallions Hill is a sixty feet high landmark created from "recycled excavated material". A spiral path leads to the summit which provides widespread views up and down the Thames. To the south the views are only as far as the ridge between Shooters Hill, Plumstead Common, Bostall Heath and Lesnes Abbey Woods. The large white building in the distance is known as 'Iron Mountain' - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2990467