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Bledlow Close, LONDON, SE28 8HF

This is a canalised stream through a recreation ground in Thamesmead. The photograph was taken looking north.

This footbridge leads between Curlew Close, and openspace area and Fieldfare Road, is used by the long distance path leading through the Crossway housing estate towards the River Thames. It crosses over an algae filled drain/river within the estate.

A substantial amount of the land at Thamesmead once formed part of the Royal Arsenal where explosives and weapons were manufactured, tested and stored. About 30 moated magazines, known as tumps, were built around 1890 to direct any accidental explosion harmlessly upwards. Some of the tumps have been preserved within Thamesmead. The brick walls, banked with earth have been preserved but the special lightweight roofs have been removed. After the First World War the Arsenal declined because it lay too far from coal and steel sources and the site was vulnerable to air attacks. The GLC was able to purchase the land from the Ministry of Defence in 1965 to build Thamesmead on the site. This tump is on the Green Chain Walk near Fieldfare Road and is now a park. The old walls can be seen on either side of the entrance and some idea of the size looking across to the far wall. See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6455551 which shows another tump on Thamesmead which is now a nature reserve.

A substantial amount of the land at Thamesmead once formed part of the Royal Arsenal where explosives and weapons were manufactured, tested and stored. About 30 moated magazines, known as tumps, were built around 1890 to direct any accidental explosion harmlessly upwards. Some of the tumps have been preserved within Thamesmead. The brick walls, banked with earth have been preserved but the special lightweight roofs have been removed. After the First World War the Arsenal declined because it lay too far from coal and steel sources and the site was vulnerable to air attacks. The GLC was able to purchase the land from the Ministry of Defence in 1965 to build Thamesmead on the site. This tump is on the Green Chain Walk near Fieldfare Road and is now a park. See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6455551 which shows another tump on Thamesmead which is now a nature reserve.

This green algae filled river (or drain!) winds through the estate via shallow concrete channels. But it does makes a pleasant green wildlife corridor.

A substantial amount of the land at Thamesmead once formed part of the Royal Arsenal where explosives and weapons were manufactured, tested and stored. About 30 moated magazines, known as tumps, were built around 1890 to direct any accidental explosion harmlessly upwards. Some of the tumps have been preserved within Thamesmead. The brick walls, banked with earth have been preserved but the special lightweight roofs have been removed. After the First World War the Arsenal declined because it lay too far from coal and steel sources and the site was vulnerable to air attacks. The GLC was able to purchase the land from the Ministry of Defence in 1965 to build Thamesmead on the site. This tump is on the Green Chain Walk near Fieldfare Road and is now a park. See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6455551 which shows another tump on Thamesmead which is now a nature reserve.

Part of an extensive drainage system which has been incorporated into linear parks.

A cycle path follows a river/drain within the estate towards the River Thames and the Thames Path.

Along the line of the ancient Harrow Manorway. Manorways were frequent along the tidal Thames on both Kent and Essex sides, and still are in modified form. They were slight causeways down from higher ground and across the coastal grazing marshes to access their more remote parts.