Crossness

Crossness is a place in south-east London. It is situated in the London Borough of Bexley, close to the southern bank of the River Thames, to the east of Thamesmead, and north-west of Erith.

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It is the location of a large sewage treatments works and pumping station created at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall Sewer as part of the London sewerage system designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and constructed during the period 1859 to 1865.

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The Crossness Pumping Station was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in April 1865 and the Beam Engine House is now a Grade 1 Listed building featuring spectacular ornamental ironwork - it has been described as "A masterpiece of engineering ? a Victorian cathedral of ironwork" by Nikolaus Pevsner. Today it is managed by the Crossness Engines Trust, a registered charity.

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London Borough of Bexley: The London Borough of Bexley is a London borough in southeast outer London. It has common borders with the London Borough of Bromley to the south, the London Borough of Greenwich to the west, and Dartford borough in Kent to the east. The River Thames is its northernmost boundary with the London Boro...

River Thames: :This article is about the River Thames in southern England. For other meanings of the word Thames, see Thames (disambiguation)...

Thamesmead: Thamesmead is a "new town", more realistically a new suburb, in London built on the southern bank of the River Thames, partly in the London Borough of Greenwich and partly in the neighbouring London Borough of Bexley. Thamesmead is 9.4 miles (15.1 km) east of Charing Cross....