List of locations in the Port of London


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 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]

[Mortlake] and Barnes">Barnes, London">Barnes

Stag BrewerySt Mary's Wharf
  • site of Mortlake Power StationMortlake Wharf
  • Small Profits Draw Dock
  • ''Harrod's Wharf''

[Putney]

  • Putney Pier Putney WharfDouglas Wharf
  • ''Spaldings Wharf''

[Wandsworth]

[Battersea]

Sherwood WharfSt Mary's Wandsworth Pier, site of Manbre & Gartons works

[Vauxhall] and [Lambeth]

[Southwark]

  • Festival Pier Old Shot Tower WharfCommercial WharfWaterloo DockNew Barge House WharfOld Jamaica WharfOld Bull Stairs WharfGreystone Lane WharfJamaica WharfBlackfriars Bridge WharfFoundry Wharf
  • Falcon Draw DockHolland WharfIron WharfHonduras WharfWillow WharfRoyal George Wharf
  • former Bankside Power StationTravers & Crown WharfQueen's WharfPhoenix WharfDevonshire WharfGlobe WharfBritish Lion WharfGreenmoor WharfStone Wharf
  • Bankside Pier/Jetty Emmerson WharfWindsor WharfBenbow WharfSturtivant WharfBear WharfBear Garden WharfSt Helen's WharfCast Iron WharfScott's WharfUniversal WharfImperial WharfSouthwark WharfBridge WharfCeylon WharfRed Lion WharfLion WharfCarey's WharfBarclay's BreweryBank End WharfSouth Eastern WharfHorseshoe WharfClink WharfWinchester WharfPhoenix WharfPickfords Wharf
  • St Mary Overie DockWest Kent Wharf
  • '' Hibernia Wharf''

Upper Pool

Fenning's Wharf Sun Wharf Topping's Wharf St Olaf House Chamberlain's Wharf Cotton's Wharf Humphery's Wharf

[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 DockSt Andrew's Wharf Meriton's Wharf, later New Concordia Wharf Reed's Wharf Uveco WharfDeverell's Wharf Downing's Wharf Reed's Lower Wharf Redman's Wharf Springall's Wharf Adlard's Wharf Brunswick Wharf, later Sterling WharfSeaborne Coal Wharf London Grist Mills East Lane Wharf Chamber's Wharves Bond's Wharf Fountain Dock Darnell's Wharf 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 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 Brandram's Wharf Charles Hay's Barge Yard Fisher's Sufferance Wharf Cumberland Wharf Carolina Wharf Ransome's Wharf Norway Wharf Clarence Wharf Dinorwic Wharf
  • Surrey Commercial DocksSurrey Commercial Wharf Bull Head Wharf King and Queen Wharf Bellamy's Wharf Prince's Wharf Lower King and Queen Wharf Upper Globe Wharf ; once Upper Globe Dock ShipyardNormandy Wharf Crown Lead Works Horseferry Wharf Grand Surrey Wharf Lavender Dock shipyard, later Lavender Wharf
  • Lavender Lock entrance to Lavender PondPageant Wharf Upper Ordnance Wharf Sunderland Wharf
  • Cuckold's Point, once site of Limehouse Hole ferryCanada Wharf, later Columbia Wharf,
  • [Hilton London Docklands|Docklands Nelson Dock Pier|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 WharfCommercial Dock Pier later Commercial Pier WharfAtkin's Wharf, Redriff Wharf, later New Caledonian Wharf
  • Greenland Dock
  • Greenland Dock Pier
  • South Dock MarinaSt 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 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 Creek
  • Brewery Wharf †

[Greenwich]

Phoenix Wharf, later Granophast Wharf Dreadnought Yard Victoria & Norway Wharf

[Greenwich Peninsula]

[New Charlton]

Peartree Wharf

[Woolwich]

Warspite Wharf Long's WharfTrinity Wharf

Belvedere">Belvedere, Kent">Belvedere, [Erith] and Crayford Ness">Crayford">Crayford Ness

[Dartford], Greenhithe">Greenhithe, Kent">Greenhithe and [Swanscombe]

[Northfleet] and Gravesend">Gravesend, Kent">Gravesend

  • Broadness
  • Northfleet Wharf
  • Britannia Terminal
  • Seacon Terminals Tower Wharf
  • Robin's Wharf
  • Brett Aggregates
  • Bevan's Wharf
  • Northfleet Terminal
  • Red Lion Wharf
  • Bowater's WharfFletchers Wharf, GravesendBaltic WharfWest Street PierCommercial WharfTown Wharf, Gravesend
  • Gravesend–Tilbury Ferry landing stagesTown Pier, Gravesend
  • Royal Terrace Pier and landing stage, Gravesend
  • Custom House Pier, Gravesend
  • Gravesend Canal Basin
  • Denton Wharf and Jetty, Gravesend
  • Jetty
  • Clubb's Marine Terminal

Cliffe">Cliffe, Kent">Cliffe

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

[Isleworth]

Lion WharfTown Wharf
  • ''Bridge Wharf''

[Brentford] and [Strand-on-the-Green]

[Chiswick]

Lep Wharf

[Hammersmith]

Albert WharfAtlanta WharfBeckett's WharfHope WharfQueen's Wharf

[Fulham] and [Sands End]

Distillery Wharf
  • site of Manbre's sugar works Duckham's Wharf Thames WharfDorset Wharf Tea Rose Jetty and WharfGreyhound WharfPalace WharfCrabree Wharf
  • Crabtree Draw DockWheatsheaf WharfRosebank WharfRedline WharfBlakes WharvesNational Benzole WharfEternit WharfStevenage WharfSwan WharfCarrara WharfWillowbank WharfBroomhouse Draw DockPetrofina WharfWhiffin Wharf
  • Hurlingham Wharf †Trinidad Wharf Albert Wharf
  • Swedish Wharf †
  • Comley's Wharf †
  • Fulham Wharf
  • site of Fulham Power StationShell WharfLensbury Wharf
  • site of Imperial Gas Works pierNacovia Wharf
  • Chelsea Harbour Pier
  • Chelsea Harbour marina

Chelsea">Chelsea, London">Chelsea

[Westminster] and [City of London]

Upper Pool

London Bridge Wharf

[Wapping] and [Shadwell]

Irongate Wharf St Katharine Wharf
  • St Katharine Docks
  • Tower Bridge Quay Harrison's Wharf South Devon Wharf British and Foreign Wharves
  • HMS President, a stone frigateMiller's Wharf Carron Wharf London and Continental Steam WharfHermitage Steam Wharf Colonial Wharves Standard Wharves Watson's Wharf Black Eagle Wharf Brewers Wharf Albion Wharf Hasties Wharf St Helens Wharf Oliver's Wharf Orient Wharf Gun Wharf St John's Wharf Morocco Wharf Eagle Sufferance Wharf Eagle Wharf Baltic Wharf Old Aberdeen Wharf
  • Wapping Police StationSt John's Wharf Sun Wharf Swan Wharf
  • Tunnel Pier King Henry's Wharves Gibb's Wharf Gun Wharves Middleton and St Bride's Wharf Foundry Wharf St Hilda's Wharf New Crane Wharves Lower Oliver's Wharf Lushes Wharf Metropolitan Wharf Thorpe's and Queen Wharf
  • ''Pelican Wharf''

[Limehouse]

Sea-borne Coal WharfBowle's Wharf Free Trade Wharf Hubbuck's Wharf Ratcliff Cross Wharf Lendrum's Wharf Phoenix Wharf Trinity Ballast Wharf Marriage's WharfRoneo Wharf London Wharf Crown Mill Wharf Eagle Wharf New Sun Wharf Vanes Wharf Oporto Wharf Old Sun Wharf Chinnock's Wharf
  • entrance to Limehouse Basin Victoria Wharf Hough's Wharf Dover Wharf Blyth Wharf, site of Stepney Power Station Broadway Wharf Etheridge's Wharf Fielder's Wharf Lamb's Wharf Sparks' Wharf Moline Wharf Duke Shore Wharf Anchor Wharf Dunbar Wharf
  • Limekiln Dock Dundee Wharf River Plate Wharf
  • Limehouse PierBuchanan's Wharf
  • ''Aberdeen Wharf''

[Millwall]

Mallinson's Wharf Bridge Wharf Charrington Barge Yard Locke's Wharf Union Docks, later Union Docks Wharf
Morton's Sufferance Wharf
  • West India Dock PierBatson's & Regents Wharves Regent Dry Dock Oak Wharf London Wharf Bullivant Wharf later Express Wharf Hutching's Wharf Ocean Wharf Lion Wharf Lollar Wharf Glengall Wharf
  • site of Atlas Chemical Company, later Atlas Wharf Timothy's Wharf Mellish Wharf later Arnhem Wharf Fenner's Wharf later Klein's Wharf
Phoenix Wharf Snowdon's Wharf Winkley's Wharf Cyclops Wharf
  • site of Millwall Pier Victoria Wharf Anchor Wharf Cutler's Wharf
  • Masthouse Terrace Pier
  • site of Drunken Dock, later Ferguson's Wharf, Rose's Wharf and St Andrew's Wharf
  • site of Tindall's Dry Dock, later Britannia Dock Guelph Wharf
  • site of Napier Yard and Millwall Iron Works Venesta Wharf Burrell's Wharf Maconochie's Wharf Nelson Wharf Clyde Wharf, later Langbourn Wharf, later Shaw's Wharf
  • site of Millwall Lead Works, later Locke's Wharf St David's Wharf
  • site of Antimony Works, later Owen Parry's Wharf
  • site of Greenwich Vehicular Ferry,Port of London Wharf, later Felstead Wharf Victoria Wharf, later Millwall Boiler Works Livingston Wharf Midland Oil Wharf Johnson's Draw Dock
  • ''Calder's Wharf''

[Cubitt Town]

Honduras Wharf, later Lukach Wharf then Luralda WharfInvicta WharfCumberland Mills Newcastle Draw DockGrosvenor WharfAlpha WharfPoplar Dry Dock later Empire Wharf Storer's WharfCaledonian WharfFalcon WharfCubitt Town Wharf Plymouth WharfPyrimont WharfDudgeon's Wharf Plough Wharf, later part of Millwall WharfLondon Yard
  • former site of Samuda Brothers shipyardElmer's WharfNew Union Wharf
  • site of Blackwall Iron Works later Ovex WharfSlipway Wharf Canal Dockyard
  • entrance to West India Docks

Blackwall">Blackwall, London">Blackwall and [Leamouth]

Concordia WharfNorth Wharf

[Canning Town]

[Silvertown]

  • Odam's Wharf Clyde Wharf
  • Hall's Wharf
  • Alexandra Wharf
  • Pinchin's Wharf
  • Peruvian Wharf †
  • Plaistow Wharf; Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup works
  • Royal Primrose Wharf, site of Royal Primrose soap works
  • Manhattan Wharf †
  • Mohawk Wharf
  • Lyle ParkVenesta Wharf
  • Deanston Wharf
  • Sunshine Wharf †Crescent Wharf, now Royal WharfMinoco Wharf, now Royal WharfPrince Regent's Wharf, now Thames Barrier Park
  • Thames Barrier northern endWard's Wharf
  • Thames Road Industrial Estate
  • Tay Wharf
  • site of Silver's India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Co works, now Thameside Industrial Estate
  • Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery and jetty
  • Cairn Mills

[North Woolwich]

[Beckton]

Gallions Jetty New Beckton Wharf

[Barking Creek]

The following wharves are located on the lower section of the River Roding, at Creekmouth.
  • Welbeck Wharf †
  • Pinns Wharf †
  • Kierbeck & Steel Wharves †
  • Debden Wharf †
  • Rippleway Wharf †Alexander Wharf
  • Maple Wharf Bowen Wharf New Free Trade Wharf Dockland Construction Wharf
  • Docklands Wharf †
  • Victoria Stone Wharf †

[Creekmouth]

[Dagenham Dock]

Rainham">Rainham, London">Rainham

[Purfleet]

[West Thurrock] and Grays">Grays, Essex">Grays

[Tilbury]

See Port of Tilbury for the main dock system.

[Shell Haven], Coryton">Coryton Refinery">Coryton, [Canvey Island] and [Southend]