Chiswick Pier (London)

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Chiswick Pier was opened in 1997 and has a thriving community of boat dwellers living on converted working boats including a North Sea trawler, a Thames Lighter Barge, a Dutch sailing barge (a tjalk) and a prefab craned on to a pontoon. There are eight residential moorings in all. The Pier is also home to the Chiswick Canoe Club and the RNLI Chiswick lifeboat, which is the second busiest lifeboat station in the whole of the UK and Ireland.

The pier is run by Chiswick Pier Trust, based at Pier House, a charity which manages the commercial and residential moorings at the Pier and works to engage people’s interest in the River Thames. They organise boat trips, talks and social events, such as the Mother’s Day Cruise in March, the Party on the Pier in July, Summer Jazz Cruise and Fireworks Cruise in November. The pier is an excellent vantage point from which to view the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race and the Great River Race. From Pier House you can see to Hammersmith Bridge to the east and almost to Barnes Railway Bridge to the west and if you’re on the pier itself, it’s as if you were beside the boats in the river, cheering them on.