The River Ravensbourne is a tributary of the River Thames in south London, England. It flows into the tidal River Thames at Deptford, where its tidal reach is known as Deptford Creek.
The river in Bromley
Caesar's Well on Keston Common, the source of the Ravensbourne
The River Ravensbourne as it passes through Lewisham, under railway arches
Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century to the late 19th it was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Dockyards. This was a major shipbuilding dock and attracted Peter the Great to come and study shipbuilding. Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard HMS Resolution, and the mysterious apparent murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.
An anchor at the southern end of Deptford High Street links Deptford to its dockyard history
Surviving riverside building of the former Royal Victoria Victualling Yard
Former Deptford Town Hall, now part of Goldsmiths College
View of Pepys Park, Convoys Wharf, Sayes Court, and over Deptford towards Lewisham