River Shuttle - Definition and Overview

The River Shuttle is a small tributary of the River Cray in Kent, England. It rises at two or more springs between Avery Hill and Eltham in the London Borough of Greenwich at the junction of the permeable Blackheath Beds and the denser Woolwich Beds. It flows east through the parkland of Avery Hill, Parish Wood Park and Hollyoak Wood Park, Willersley Park, Marlborough Park and Sidcup Golf Course, where it feeds a lake in the grounds of Lamorbey Mansion (c.1750). Continuing east, it flows through Bexley Woods and then follows the south side of the major A2 London-to-Dover road until it joins the Cray just south of Hall Place.

A footpath called the Shuttle Riverway follows the river for its entire length of five miles (about 8 km).