Walbrook Wharf
 
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Location of Walbrook Wharf in Greater London |
The Walbrook Wharf is a Frachtkai on the River Thames in London , which is still in operation today. It is next to the Cannon Street station . It has the status of a Safeguarded Wharf .
It is used as a garbage dump, owned by the City of London Corporation and operated by Cory Environmental . Household waste from central London is loaded onto barges and then taken to the Mucking Marshes landfill in Essex .
Walbrook Wharf used to be a harbor basin, but it was backfilled after it was no longer usable for the large container ships. This is also where the now-underground river Walbrook flows into the Thames; the place is also called Dowgate .
The Thames riverside path also runs along Walbrook Wharf and will only be closed to public transport when garbage is being loaded.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '36.8 " N , 0 ° 5' 30.4" W.