The Thames Trot Johan Larsson

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Johan Larsson has already done 280.5 km

Latest activity on the course at 18:20, Saturday, 31 October.
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Days until challenge ends 1245.
Keep up the good work. You are 13 km from reaching Thames Barriers in East London.
Percent done: 95%. Currently you average 1 km/day. At this pace you'll be done in 13 days on Wednesday, 10 April.
You need to average 0 km/day to reach goal before Saturday, 31 October.

Ann-Elise Lady is 6.5 km behind. Göran Hofstedt is 13 km ahead.

Points of interest

Lavender Pond

Lavender Pond is a 2.5 acre local nature reserve in Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark. It is owned by Southwark Council and managed by The Conservation Volunteers. The nature reserve has an area of woodland as well as the pond. == History == The site is in the northern end of the former Surrey Commercial Docks. The pond is a small part of the much larger former Lavender Pond, where timber was floated to prevent it drying and cracking.

Photo: Dudley Miles (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Cuckold's Point

Cuckold's Point is part of a sharp bend on the River Thames on the Rotherhithe peninsula, south-east London, opposite the West India Docks and to the north of Columbia Wharf. The name comes from a post surmounted by a pair of horns that used to stand at the location, a symbol commemorating the starting point of the riotous Horn Fair, which can also symbolise a cuckold, a man whose wife had openly cheated on him. The Horn Fair was a procession which led to Charlton. It is said that King John, or another English monarch, gave the fair as a concession, along with all the land from the point to Charlton, to a miller whose wife he had seduced after a hunting trip, though this story is disputed.Cuckold's Point was also the location of a riverside gibbet, where the bodies of executed criminals (usually river pirates) were displayed as a deterrent to others, while it also gave its name to an adjacent shipyard during the 18th century. Cuckold's Point is near to Pageant Crescent, Rotherhithe and to Nelson's Pier, from which the Docklands Hilton has a ferry connection to Canary Wharf.

Photo: Samuel Scott (Public domain)
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Columbia Wharf, Rotherhithe

Columbia Wharf, on the south bank of the River Thames in London, was the first grain silo in a British port. Built in 1864, it was designed by architect and hymnwriter James Edmeston for G & I L Green's Patent Ventilating Grain Company. It is in Rotherhithe, south of Cuckold's Point and north of Nelson Dock Pier. Canada Wharf was added to the complex in 1870–1. Used for storage of foodstuffs until 1976, the complex, including a former engine house and boiler to the south, was listed as a Grade II building in 1983, and is now used for accommodation.

Photo: Leutha (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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The Grapes, Limehouse

The Grapes is a Grade II listed public house situated directly on the north bank of the Thames in London's Limehouse area, with a veranda overlooking the water. To its landward side, the pub is found at number 76 in Narrow Street, flanked by former warehouses now converted to residential and other uses.The Grapes is owned in partnership by the actor Sir Ian McKellen, the theatre and film director Sean Mathias, and Evgeny Lebedev, publisher of the Evening Standard newspaper. == History == The current building dates from the 1720s and is on the site of a pub built in 1583. It was formerly a working-class tavern serving the dockers of the Limehouse Basin. In the 1930s it sold beer from the adjacent brewery owned by Taylor Walker.

Photo: Nilfanion (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Nelson House, London

Nelson House, also known as Nelson Dock House, is a Grade II* listed building on Rotherhithe Street in the London Borough of Southwark. The house was built in the 1740s in the Georgian style and was historically home to shipbuilders including John Randall. The house is named after Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. == History == Nelson House is located at 265 Rotherhithe Street, in the London Borough of Southwark. Rotherhithe Street is London's longest street, at a length of around 1.5 miles (2.4 km).Nelson House was built in the 1740s on the site of a former shipyard, in the Georgian style.

Photo: Stephen Richards (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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