Limehouse
Limehouse is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. It is 3.9 miles east of Charing Cross, on the northern bank of the River Thames.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Limehouse station and Limehouse Basin.
Limehouse station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Limehouse is a National Rail and connected Docklands Light Railway station in Limehouse, London, England. It is served by regional services operated by c2c to and from Fenchurch Street and by light metro services provided by the DLR to and from Tower Gateway or Bank.
Limehouse Basin
Canal
Photo: originalpickaxe, CC BY 3.0.
Limehouse Basin is a body of water two miles east of London Bridge that is also a navigable link between the River Thames and two of London's canals. First dug in 1820 as the eastern terminus of the new Regent's Canal, its wet area was less than five acres…
Limehouse Town Hall
Arts center
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Limehouse Town Hall is a former town hall building on Commercial Road, in Limehouse, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a Grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ratcliff and Cuckold’s Point.
Ratcliff
Quarter
Ratcliff or Ratcliffe is a locality in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames between Limehouse, and Shadwell. The place name is no longer commonly used.
Cuckold’s Point
Locality
Cuckold's Point, also Cuckold's Haven, is part of a sharp bend on the River Thames on the Rotherhithe peninsula, south-east London, opposite the West India Docks and to the north of Columbia Wharf.
Stepney
Suburb
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Stepney is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London. Stepney is no longer officially defined, and is usually used to refer to a relatively small area.
Limehouse
- Type: Suburb with 16,000 residents
- Description: district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.51331° or 51° 30′ 48″ northLongitude
-0.03515° or 0° 2′ 7″ westPopulation
16,000Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
9C3XGX77+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 27365039OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2644497Wikidata ID
Q123741
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Limehouse” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Limehouse”
- Arabic: “لايمهاوس”
- Armenian: “Լայմհաուս”
- Catalan: “Limehouse”
- Chinese: “莱姆豪斯区”
- Chinese: “萊姆豪斯”
- Chinese: “萊姆豪斯區”
- Czech: “Limehouse”
- Dutch: “Limehouse”
- French: “Limehouse”
- German: “Limehouse”
- Greek: “Λάιμχαους”
- Hebrew: “לימהאוס”
- Hindi: “लाइमहाउस”
- Irish: “Limehouse”
- Italian: “Limehouse”
- Japanese: “ライムハウス”
- Latin: “Limodomus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limehouse”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Limehouse”
- Persian: “لایم هاوس”
- Russian: “Лаймхаус”
- South Azerbaijani: “لایم هاوس”
- Spanish: “Limehouse”
- Swedish: “Limehouse”
- Turkish: “Limehouse”
- Ukrainian: “Лаймгаус”
- Urdu: “لائم ہاؤس، لندن”
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