Visit Creekmouth Places

Welcome to Visit Creekmouth Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Creekmouth

  

Creekmouth Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Creekmouth

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Creekmouth history

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The Creekmouth Village as it was known was built in the 1850s by John Bennett Lawes. It was primarily for workers at his factory, the Lawes Chemical and Fertiliser Company. The 1953 North Sea flood struck the village hard – with the sea surge flooding the entirety of the village to a height of 3 feet (0.91 m) Residents were rehoused on the nearby Thames View Estate.

Creekmouth geography / climate

The regeneration project, costing £290,000 was started in 2005 and has seen the Environment Agency work with local charity the Creekmouth Preservation Society to transform disused land at the Barking Barrier into a green space.

You can visit Creekmouth places with Walkfo Creekmouth to hear history at Creekmouth’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Creekmouth has 137 places to visit in our interactive Creekmouth map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Creekmouth, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Creekmouth places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Creekmouth & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 137 audio facts unique to Creekmouth places in an interactive Creekmouth map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Creekmouth Places Map
137 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Creekmouth tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Creekmouth

  

Best Creekmouth places to visit

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Creekmouth has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Creekmouth’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Creekmouth’s information audio spots:

North Woolwich North Woolwich is located on the northern bank of the River Thames, across the river from Woolwich. It is connected to Woolwich by the Woolwich Ferry and Woolwich foot tunnel. Despite lying on the north, Essex side of the Thames, the area is within the historic county of Kent. It was part of the parish of Woolwich in the Blackheath hundred.

Old Woolwich Old Woolwich or Woolwich Central Riverside is an area along the Thames in Woolwich, South East London . It is the oldest inhabited part of Woolwich going back to an Anglo-Saxon riverside settlement . Most of the area was cleared in the 20th and early 21st centuries to make way for large-scale developments .

Bathway Quarter Most buildings in the Bathway Quarter are Grade II* Grade II or locally listed . The area as a whole is designated a conservation area by Greenwich Council . Several were designed by local architect Henry Hudson Church .

HyMag HYMAG (formerly the Hyman Archive) is a British archive of popular publications based in London . HYMAG was formerly known as HYMAG .

Beckton Beckton is within the London Borough of Newham and is 8 miles (12.9 km) east of Charing Cross. Historically part of Essex, Beckton was unpopulated marshland adjacent to the River Thames until the development of major industrial infrastructure in the 19th century. Housing was created in Beckton for workers of the gas and sewage works.

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