London River Services, operated by Thames Clipper, provide a peak hour, seven days a week service to central London ( Savoy Pier ) from Woolwich Arsenal Pier ( adjacent to the Royal Arsenal residential development ).

It is served by Thames Clipper river boat services to Canary Wharf, Greenwich and the O < sub > 2 </ sub > in the east, and Embankment to the west.

A Thames Clipper river bus service

Thames Clipper in London

As part of the development of the O < sub > 2 </ sub >, Anschutz also purchased the London river service company Thames Clipper, and supported the development of the nearby David Beckham Academy ( which also has a branch at the Home Depot Center ).

* the Thames commuter catamaran service run by Thames Clipper from Embankment, via Tower Millennium Pier, Canary Wharf and on to the O < sub > 2 </ sub > and Woolwich Arsenal Pier

The pier is used by river bus services from Embankment to Woolwich ( operated by Thames Clipper ) and Westminster-Greenwich tourist boats ( operated by City Cruises ).

A River Roamer ticket, valid for one day, is available from Thames Clipper which allows the holder to hop on and hop off along the banks of the Thames between St George Wharf Pier and Royal Arsenal Woolwich Pier ( including the Canary Wharf-Rotherhithe Ferry ).

Thames Clipper vessels have on-board cafes and bars operated by Aramark and branded as Costa Coffee.

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It is part of the London commuter belt and an area of regeneration within the Thames Gateway redevelopment zone.

In addition, three Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( the Chiltern Hills, Surrey Hills and North Downs AONBs ) surrounding the Thames basin feature in the commuter belt.

It is part of the London commuter belt and Greater London Urban Area, and is about south-west of central London on the River Thames and near junction 13 of the M25 motorway.

The North Greenwich Pier offering commuter boat service to other parts of London, both east and west, is located on the Thames just to the east of the tube station.

First Great Western operates high-speed services between London Paddington, the Cotswolds, South Wales and the West Country, commuter services in London and the Thames Valley, regional services between south-east Wales and south-west England, and local services in the south-west of England.

Thames Ditton has a railway link to London serving the large commuter population, local workforce and Esher college student population.

In 2007 the company purchased six spacious new catamarans to be used on the Thames Clippers commuter service in order to carry a large number of passengers in a comfortable environment.

Opponents note that the river capacity, especially at low tide could mean a reduction of tourist boats ( especially at peak commuter times ), and turn the Thames into urban highway which would be detrimental to London.

In addition, within walking distance of GMV, to the east of the North Greenwich tube station on the Thames is the North Greenwich Pier, formerly named QEII Pier, which offers commuter boat service to other parts of London, both east and west.

The first known " modern " rowing races began from competition among the professional watermen in the United Kingdom that provided ferry and taxi service on the River Thames in London.

The ferry was mentioned in the household accounts of Edward I ( 1272 – 1307 ): Robert the Ferryman of Putney and other sailors received 3 / 6d for carrying a great part of the royal family across the Thames and also for taking the king and his family to Westminster.

The Thames flood barrier is located a mile upstream from the tunnel and ferry.

Between the embankments, the River Thames could have been crossed by ford when the tide was low, or ferry when it was high.

A ferry for passengers on foot connects Tilbury with Gravesend on the southern bank of the River Thames.

Victoria Day celebrations were marred by tragedy in 1881, when a passenger ferry named Victoria overturned in the Thames River, near London, Ontario.

* at North Woolwich passengers could cross the Thames via the Woolwich foot tunnel or the free ferry to Woolwich Arsenal station for connections on the North Kent line to Medway Towns, Gravesend, Dartford, Sidcup, Abbey Wood, Blackheath, Lewisham, Greenwich and Central London

The two were linked by a horse ferry across the Thames.

The street crossing that was known as " Little Chelsea ", Park Walk, linked Fulham Road to King's Road and continued to the Thames and local ferry down Lover's Lane, renamed " Milmans Street " in the 18th century.

The tunnel replaced an expensive and sometimes unreliable ferry service, and was intended to allow workers living on the south side of the Thames to reach their workplaces in the London docks and shipyards then situated in or near the Isle of Dogs.

On 3 August 2011, a 19 year old ferry worker died after falling off the boat into the river Thames.

The village developed particularly because of its close proximity to Windsor and the ferry service which connected the main London road to Windsor across the River Thames.

The ferry was old and somewhat dangerous, and in 1766 Spencer formed the Battersea Bridge Company and sought and obtained Parliamentary consent to build " a fine stone bridge " across the Thames.

River boat services in London therefore mostly travel east or west along the Thames rather than across it, and the only major cross-river ferry services are to be found further downstream where the river is wider.

Nevison escaped, using a ferry to cross the Thames at Tilbury, and then galloping via Chelmsford, Cambridge and Huntingdon to York ( some 200 miles ( 300 km ) from the scene of the crime ), where he arrived at sunset.

He took a coach to Blackfriars Stairs, a boat up the River Thames to the horse ferry in Westminster, near the warehouse where he hid his stolen goods, and made good his escape.

Its counterpart on the south bank of the River Thames, Gravesend, has long been an important communications link, and it was there that a cross-river ferry ( see below ) was connected, mainly due to the narrowness of the river at this point.

In 1852 an Act of Parliament had authorised the building of the London Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LTSR ), with a short spur to take advantage of the ferry over the Thames ; a pier nearby was constructed for the steamboat traffic.

Thurrock Council, together with Kent County Council, subsidises the ferry between Tilbury and Gravesend, which is currently operated by the Lower Thames & Medway Passenger Boat Company.

To the southeast lies Brentwood, on the old road to the former River Thames ferry crossing at Tilbury, though the building in the 1970s of the M11 and M25 motorways means that Ongar is no longer directly on a principal route for petrol tankers ( and other less prominent vehicles ) travelling from the current Dartford Crossing and the Thames Estuary oil refineries.

The first known " modern " rowing races began from competition among the professional watermen that provided ferry and taxi service on the River Thames in London.

Originally, it was raced every 1 August against the outgoing ( falling or ebb ) tide, in the boats used by watermen to ferry passengers across the Thames.

The old Duke used to complain bitterly of the interruption he met with ( in crossing the Thames at Westminster ) for the delay and inattention of the ferry man, etc., by which he often lost several hours of a fine morning before he arrived in Croydon.