Shadwell Basin

St Katharine Docks | 1 mile, 2½ furlongs | |
Thames - Neckinger Junction | 1 mile, 1¼ furlongs | |
Wapping Old Stairs | 5¼ furlongs | |
The Angel PH (Wapping) | 5¼ furlongs | |
Canada and Surrey Water | 1¼ furlongs | |
Shadwell Basin | ||
Limehouse Basin Entrance | 3¼ furlongs | |
Old Limehouse Cut Entrance | 4 furlongs | |
The Grapes PH | 4¾ furlongs | |
Canary Wharf – Rotherhithe Ferry | 7 furlongs | |
West India Dock Entrance | 7¾ furlongs |
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Nearest water point
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Thames Flood Barrier
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In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Thames Flood Barrier
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In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Thames Flood Barrier
Nearest place to turn
In the direction of Thames Flood Barrier
Nearest self-operated pump-out
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Thames Flood Barrier
Nearest boatyard pump-out
In the direction of Thames Flood Barrier
Wikipedia has a page about Shadwell Basin
Shadwell Basin is a housing and leisure complex built around a disused dock in Wapping, London. The old dock was formerly part of the London Docks, a group of docks built by the London Dock Company at Wapping as part of the wider docks of the Port of London, and historically in Shadwell from where it takes its name.
Today Shadwell Basin is one the most significant bodies of water surviving from the historical London Docks. It is situated on the north side of the river Thames east (downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge and west (upstream) of Limehouse.
Unlike some of the London Docks which have been landfilled, Shadwell Basin, the most easterly part of the complex, has been retained. It is now a maritime square of 2.8 hectares used for recreational purposes (including sailing, canoeing and fishing) and is surrounded on three sides by a waterside housing development designed by British architects MacCormac, Jamieson, Prichard and Wright.
The residential buildings are four and five storeys with façades of alternating open arches and enclosed structure, echoing the scale of traditional 19th century dockside warehouses, with a colonnade at quayside. The development, made up of Newlands Quay, Maynards Quay and Peartree Lane, was added to the National Heritage List for England by Historic England as Grade II listed in 2018, part of a first-ever listing of Post-Modern buildings.
Shadwell Basin has Benson Quay on its south-west corner with its south side overlooked by Riverside Mansions in Milk Yard and the Monza Building in Monza Street and, at its south-eastern end, the former Wapping Hydraulic Power Station building.
On the north side of Shadwell Basin, east of Newlands Quay, St. Paul's Church, Shadwell provides a dramatic backdrop with its spire and the St Paul’s Church Conservation Area extends to the water's edge with a terraced quayside that includes an outdoor gym.
Shadwell Basin is a popular public route for cyclists, joggers and pedestrians with a walkway alongside the water as part of the linked open spaces and canals between the river and Hermitage Basin near St Katharine Docks to the west.