Chislehurst is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Crystal Palace, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.

The park is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Chislehurst, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.

Plumstead is a multi cultural area with large Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities, in similarity to local areas such as Woolwich and Thamesmead.

Thamesmead is a district of south-east London, England, located in the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley.

Much of this canal has been filled in, but part remains in Thamesmead West and is now called the Broadwater.

The pre-1974 parts of Thamesmead are a mix of modernist town houses, medium-rise and 12-storey blocks system-built in concrete, which have featured in various films due to their ' rough urban look '; the design of the newer buildings is more traditional and in brick.

Tilfen is jointly owned by Gallions and Trust Thamesmead.

Bus services were improved and people living on Thamesmead are now more easily able to reach Abbey Wood Station, which is a main stop on the line.

Thamesmead is also cut off from the north of the River Thames and is in the centre of the 15 mile gap between the Blackwall Tunnel and the Dartford Tunnel / QE2 Bridge.

* Thamesmead South is in Bexley and is the location of the original development built in the late 1960s to early 1970s.

* Thamesmead Central is in Greenwich and was first developed in the early 1980s in the ring between the A2016 and A2041.

* Thamesmead North is split between Bexley & Greenwich and is north of the A2016 and east of the A2041.

* Thamesmead West is in Greenwich near Woolwich and Plumstead ( Between Whinchat Road, the A2016 & the banks of the river Thames ) and was built from the 1990s onwards.

The area is also under the flight path to and from London City Airport, which is a particular issue in West Thamesmead where the planes are at their lowest.

Thamesmead now features a retail park finished in brick anchored around a Morrisons Supermarket ; there is also a shopping parade which has mainly serviced based outlets such as hairdressers and estate agents.

Trust Thamesmead is a registered charity set up to provide community services across Thamesmead.

Part of Thamesmead West is also sometimes referred to as " Gallions Reach Urban Village ".

There is no Docklands Light Railway, London Underground or rail station in Thamesmead West.

Belmarsh Prison, Isis Prison and Thameside Prison are located on western edge of the area, while the sewage processing works at Crossness, built in the Victorian era is on eastern edge of Thamesmead.

Thamesmead West contains Gallions Ecopark a pioneering small social / affordable housing development with homes built to high energy efficiency and environmental standards.

Early 21st century new build properties in Thamesmead West have been blighted by social problems and mass repossessions, attracting national attention.

Much of Thamesmead was initially built by the Greater London Council ( GLC ) for rent to families moving from overcrowded back-to-back Victorian housing ( also referred to as slums ) in south eastern parts of Inner London.

When the GLC was abolished in 1986, its housing assets and the remaining undeveloped land was vested in a non-profit organisation Thamesmead Town Limited ( TTL ).

It was provided walkways between its blocks of housing and later between sections in North Thamesmead.

After a partial success within the London Metropolitan green belt New Towns Basildon and Borehamwood and expansion of these areas combined with still chronic housing shortages in south-east London another small New Town Thamesmead was developed adjacent to the Thames in the early 1960s but suffered from poor transport links that a few small adhoc developments today suffer from, though transport links have improved due to inward investment.

When North Greenwich was opened, it was built to enable a branch extension to be built eastwards to Thamesmead.

Thamesmead was built at the end of the 1960s.

From the start Thamesmead was cut off from Abbey Wood the nearest town, with shopping facilities by a railway line over which a 4 lane bridge was built to overcome in the early 70s.

In common with the rest of London, the ethnic make-up of Thamesmead has changed since it was first built.

Thamesmead, the " new town " built on what was the Erith Marshes, extends into the Borough: both Thamesmead North and South are located here.

It was planned that the bridge should be built by 2013 and would have connected Beckton in the London Borough of Newham with Thamesmead in the Royal Borough of Greenwich linking the A406 / A13 junction in Beckton with the A2016 Eastern Way and Western Way in Thamesmead and serve the new Thames Gateway development.

The covered sewer forms the southern boundary of Thamesmead and has been landscaped as an elevated footpath called the Ridgeway ( similar to The Greenway built over the Northern Outfall Sewer ).

An alternative plan was devised in the 1970s to extend the Jubilee line parallel to the River Thames: this would have taken the line from Fenchurch Street to Thamesmead via St Katharine Docks, Wapping, Surrey Docks North, Millwall ( near to South Quay DLR station ), North Greenwich, Custom House, Silvertown, Woolwich Arsenal, and thence to Thamesmead.

Bexleyheath has drawn a lot of custom to match the expansion in retail space from residents of towns in the borough, particularly from Erith and Thamesmead which have expanded in size with development along the River Thames.

Still, residential building continued, this time on the other side of the A2016, which effectively cut this part of Thamesmead off from any form of rail travel to central London.

Thamesmead was designed around futuristic ideas, and indeed, looked impressive at first from a distance.

Being cut off from the tube map and at the very edge of the metropolis may have meant Thamesmead was not first port of call for immigrants arriving in London.

In the 1990s, another ultimately larger wave of emigration from West Africa ( predominately Nigeria and Ghana ) began, growing to a point where national newspapers talked of advertisements on Nigerian Television describing Thamesmead as a key UK destination.

There are a wide variety of active community groups and local bands ( The Bargains and a member of post-rock act From The Sky ( band )) and a short-range commercial radio station-106. 8 Time FM-that grew from the original cable ( subsequently FM ) service " Radio Thamesmead ".

After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.

The principal roads through the Borough include the A2 trunk road ; the A20 ( Sidcup By-Pass ) which generally marks its southern boundary ; the A207, which is the route of the erstwhile Watling Street ; the A206 which takes traffic from Woolwich and Dartford ; and the latter's newer counterpart, the A2016 through Thamesmead.

There have been a number of ad-hoc changes to the organisation of the districts, such as the creation of SE28 from existing districts because of the construction of the high-density Thamesmead development.

Another small New Town, Thamesmead, was developed adjacent to the Thames in the early 1960s but suffered from poor transport links.

When the first section of the Jubilee line was planned in the 1970s, the second phase of the project was intended to continue the line eastwards from the terminus at Charing Cross to the City of London, Woolwich and Thamesmead.

John Eric Austin, formerly known as John Austin-Walker, ( born 21 August 1944 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Woolwich from 1992 to 1997 and for Erith and Thamesmead from 1997 to 2010.

In the league, the Stones looked destined to win a second successive title but after a poor run-in, coupled with the withdrawal from the league of Faversham Town, the club bizarrely lost the championship by 0. 14 of a point ( the League Management Committee decreed that the title would be awarded to the club with the highest earned points per match average, so with Maidstone and Thamesmead Town achieving 63 points from 30 games, the unusual situation arose that the championship was won by Cray Wanderers with 62 points from 29 games ).