Crossness Pumping Station
This is Crossness Pumping Station, a museum in Bexley. Add any of 7 more places within 5 km to a visit. The Crossness Engines Trust runs it.
Museum in Bexley
Inside Bexley
Crossness Pumping Station is inside Bexley’s built-up area, with 7 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.
Warm months and wet ones
If warmth matters, go May to September: Bexley reaches 18–23°C.
Crossness Pumping Station
Our list goes on with Tower of London, 15 km away.
- Type
- Museum
- Run by
- The Crossness Engines Trust
- Town
- in Bexley
- Official site
- crossness.org.uk
Practical information
- EntryA fee is charged
Where it sits
Each numbered point is one of the places listed below; Crossness Pumping Station is the orange one.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Bexley’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
The towns around Crossness Pumping Station
The most populous of the 5 is Newham, at 351,065. Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.
Bexley
Barking and Dagenham
Greenwich
Havering
Compare the 5 towns
| Town | Where Crossness Pumping Station is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bexley | It’s in town | 246,074 | 29 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 700 m north of it | 218,236 | 29 |
| Greenwich | 1.2 km southwest of it | 288,117 | 125 |
| Havering | 1.5 km northeast of it | 259,401 | 22 |
| Newham | 3 km west of it | 351,065 | 133 |
More near Crossness Pumping Station
Choose from 135 places within 15 km, such as 5 museums, 2 historic houses and a castle.
Big drawCastleTower of London15 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)2MuseumMuseumRoyal Observatory Greenwich10 km away3
Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum10 km away · 2.4M visitors a year4
MuseumCutty Sark11 km away5
MuseumQueen's House10 km away6
Museum · National TrustRed House6 km away7
Historic house · English HeritageEltham Palace9.3 km away8
Historic housePalace of Placentia10 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Know before you visit Crossness Pumping Station
Where is Crossness Pumping Station?
Crossness Pumping Station is in Bexley, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Crossness Pumping Station?
Museum.
Who runs Crossness Pumping Station?
The Crossness Engines Trust.
When is the best time to visit Crossness Pumping Station?
May to September are the warmest months in Bexley, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Crossness Pumping Station?
Within 15 km: Tower of London (15 km), Royal Observatory Greenwich (10 km), National Maritime Museum (10 km) and Cutty Sark (11 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 (7)
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cutty Sark: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Queen's House: Vladimír Procházka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Red House: Velela, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eltham Palace: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Palace of Placentia: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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