Barrier Gardens Pier
Barrier Gardens Pier is a pier on the River Thames near the Thames Barrier. It lies inside the built-up area of Greenwich. The site is run by Port of London Authority.
Pier in Greenwich
Inside Greenwich
Barrier Gardens Pier is inside Greenwich’s built-up area, with 41 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
The climate through the year
Aim for May to September, when Greenwich reaches 18–24°C.
Barrier Gardens Pier
Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 2 languages. 504 other places to visit are within 15 km, led by Royal Observatory Greenwich (3.6 km).
- Type
- Pier
- Run by
- Port of London Authority
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 2 languages
- Town
- in Greenwich
Barrier Gardens Pier on the map
Orange shows Barrier Gardens Pier; numbers mark the places near it.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Greenwich’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Nearby towns
Home to 351,065 people, Newham is the largest of these 6. Start with its own town; the others follow by distance.
Greenwich
Newham
Tower Hamlets
Lewisham
Compare the 6 towns
| Town | Where Barrier Gardens Pier is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich | It’s in town | 288,117 | 125 |
| Newham | 400 m north of it | 351,065 | 133 |
| Tower Hamlets | 2.6 km northwest of it | 311,072 | 430 |
| Lewisham | 3.5 km southwest of it | 300,764 | 218 |
| Bexley | 4.3 km southeast of it | 246,074 | 29 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 4.3 km northeast of it | 218,236 | 29 |
While you are near Barrier Gardens Pier
504 more lie within 15 km, 4 museums, a castle and a cathedral among them.
Big drawCastleTower of London8.3 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)3
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum12 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)4
Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum3.6 km away · 2.4M visitors a year5
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey12 km away6
AttractionElizabeth Tower12 km away7
Historic houseBuckingham Palace13 km away8
MuseumCutty Sark3.8 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Questions before you go
Where is Barrier Gardens Pier?
Barrier Gardens Pier is in Greenwich, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Barrier Gardens Pier?
Pier on the River Thames near the Thames Barrier.
Who runs Barrier Gardens Pier?
Port of London Authority.
When is the best time to visit Barrier Gardens Pier?
May to September are the warmest months in Greenwich, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Barrier Gardens Pier?
Within 15 km: Royal Observatory Greenwich (3.6 km), Tower of London (8.3 km), British Museum (12 km) and National Maritime Museum (3.6 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (8)
- Barrier Gardens Pier: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cutty Sark: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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