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Devons Road, Tower Hamlets A Docklands Light Railway station and a road that links Bow Common with Bromley-by-Bow Earlier called Bromley Lane, the road may…

East India, Tower Hamlets A Docklands Light Railway station built on part of the site of the East India Docks in eastern Blackwall In 1803…

Bromley-by-Bow, Tower Hamlets A historic East End district situated between Bow and Poplar ‘Bromley’ is a corrup­tion of Old English words meaning ‘woodland clearing with…

…the base of the tower remaining from the medieval structure. It now forms the focus of Lewisham council’s St Mary’s conser­va­tion area. In the 18th century…

…corner of the City. (The Tower nowadays finds itself just outside the City of London boundary: it is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.)…

Shadwell, Tower Hamlets Now the north-eastern part of Wapping, but once a separate Tower hamlet Shadwell’s Old English name means ‘shallow well’. Archae­o­log­ical exca­va­tions have…

Mile End, Tower Hamlets A contrasting district of 18th-century terraces and postwar tower blocks, situated west of Bow Mile End’s name derives from a hamlet –…

…and Barnard Park on Copen­hagen Street and Cale­donian Park on Market Road are the area’s largest remaining open spaces. The once-central market clock tower survives…

South Bromley, Tower Hamlets A little-used name (although still recog­nised by older residents) for the south-eastern part of Bromley-by-Bow, which has been sliced and diced…

Chingford, Waltham Forest A 20th-century suburb that grew up as a set of Epping Forest hamlets near the River Lea Chingford’s name may be derived from…