Poplar
Poplar is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located five miles east of Charing Cross and lies on the western bank of the River Lea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 8,070 residents
- Description: district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Also known as: “Poplar town” and “Poplar, London”
Places of Interest
Highlights include All Saints DLR station and Poplar Baths.
All Saints DLR station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
All Saints is a Docklands Light Railway station in Poplar in East London. The station is named after nearby All Saints, a Church of England parish church dating from 1821 to 1823.
Poplar Baths
Sports venue
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Poplar Baths on the East India Dock Road in Poplar, London is a former public bath house and Grade II listed building that was constructed in 1933 and closed to the public in 1988.
Poplar DLR station
Railway station
Poplar is a Docklands Light Railway station in Poplar in London, England. Poplar is a cross-platform interchange station for three of the six lines on the DLR making it one of the busiest stations on the network in terms of services.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canary Wharf and Blackwall.
Canary Wharf
Suburb
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canary Wharf is a privately owned financial district in London, England, located on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Greater London Authority defines it as part of London's central business district, alongside Central London.
Blackwall
Suburb
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Blackwall is an area of Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. The neighbourhood includes Leamouth and the Coldharbour conservation area.
Blackwall Yard
Locality
Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for over 350 years. The yard closed in 1987.
Poplar
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51107° or 51° 30′ 40″ northLongitude
-0.01446° or 0° 0′ 52″ westPopulation
8,070Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PPLOpen location code
9C3XGX6P+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 27365043OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Poplar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوبلار”
- Belarusian: “Поплар”
- Catalan: “Poplar”
- Chinese: “波普勒”
- Danish: “Poplar”
- Dutch: “Poplar”
- Finnish: “Poplar”
- French: “Poplar”
- Hebrew: “פופלר”
- Hindi: “पॉप्लर, लंदन”
- Hindi: “पॉप्लर”
- Irish: “Poplar, Londain”
- Irish: “Poplar”
- Italian: “Poplar”
- Japanese: “ポプラー”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poplar”
- Norwegian: “Poplar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Poplar”
- Persian: “پاپلار، لندن”
- Polish: “Poplar”
- Russian: “Поплар”
- Slovenian: “Poplar”
- South Azerbaijani: “پاپلار، لندن”
- Spanish: “Poplar”
- Swedish: “Poplar”
- Turkish: “Poplar”
- Urdu: “پوپلر، لندن”
- Welsh: “Poplar”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Poplar”. Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.