Thames Embankment

In January 1842 the City Corporation backed a plan designed by James Walker but which was dropped due to government infighting.

[2] It incorporates the main low level interceptor sewer from the then limits of west London's growth, and an underground railway over which a wide road and riverside walkway were built and run today, shored up by the sturdy retaining wall along the tidal River Thames (the Tideway).

Those waterfront hotels, supply warehouses and genteel "town houses" which had boat access by inlets and watergates lost this.

From Battersea Bridge in the west, it includes Cheyne Walk, Chelsea Embankment, Grosvenor Road, Millbank and Victoria Tower Gardens.

Some parts of the Embankment were rebuilt in the 20th century due to wartime bomb damage or natural disasters such as the 1928 Thames flood.