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Dist:0.2km north<br/>This is a canalised stream through a recreation ground in Thamesmead. The photograph was taken looking north.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is the view from the footbridge in [[329430]], looking towards the eastern overbridge carrying the A2041 over the dual carriageway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A view of [[329430]] at dusk. The pedestrian route weaves its way under and over the traffic lanes of a complex junction, sometimes with little headroom. Coming down its northern end into the backstreets of a 1970's housing estate, it is a typical concrete cityscape, unwelcoming at the best of times, and not really the place you want to be after dark. This was the last photo I took that day before catching a bus home.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Southmere (variously spelt as one word or two) is the lake at the heart of the huge Thamesmead housing development (started in the 1970's and still expanding).
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Sunset over Southmere Lake with the flats in shadow
©Linda Craven
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This footbridge links the Southmere area with the main area of Thamesmead.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km south<br/>Epic open boat voyages in history, Shackleton, Bligh, etc., reenacted on South Mere in Thamesmead. I jest, sorry. Hartslock Drive flats viewed from Binsey Walk flats looking over South Mere with the local kids trying out their boating skills.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km north<br/>A lovely sunset over Southmere Lake, Thamesmead, South East London on 7 December at 4.19pm
©Linda Craven
Dist:0.7km east<br/>An unpromising location, sandwiched between the hugh Crossness sewage works and a dual carriageway. But the footpath offers a rich crop of berries in late summer and the impression of being in the countryside (if you can ignore the smell).
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.8km west<br/>One of the network of watercourses in Thamesmead, this one is at the rear of the houses in Austen Close. Apart from the coot in the water a heron is just visible lurking on the top of the bank to the right. The Thamesmead development has been built on the former Plumstead Marshes.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.8km south<br/>The footbridge links the Abbey Wood Park area to Southmere.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.9km northwest<br/>Looking east along the Thames from the riverside walk.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.9km northeast<br/>The golf driving range, situated at the end of Fairway Drive (where else?) in Thamesmead
©Stephen Craven
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Looking across the lake behind the leisure centre, with the residential blocks in the distance.
©Chris Downer
Dist:1.0km southwest<br/>Bank holiday weekend, and a small funfair comes to the park south of Birchmere (this park is unnamed on any map that I have seen).
©Stephen Craven

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