Cubitt Town
Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, after whom it is named.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cutty Sark and Royal Observatory.
Cutty Sark
Museum
Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
Royal Observatory
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.
Crossharbour DLR station
Railway station
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crossharbour is a light metro station on the Docklands Light Railway Bank-Lewisham Line in Cubitt Town, East London. The station is situated on the Isle of Dogs and is between Mudchute and South Quay stations and is in London fare zone 2.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include London Yard and St John’s Estate.
London Yard
Neighborhood
London Yard was a shipyard in Cubitt Town, London, in use between around 1856 and 1908 by various shipbuilding companies, including Westwood, Baillie and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
St John’s Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John's Estate is a housing scheme in Cubitt Town, on the Isle of Dogs in London. Centred on the triangle formed by Manchester Road, East Ferry Road and Glengall Grove, it was developed by Poplar Borough Council after the Second World War.
Isle of Dogs
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England. It includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts.
Cubitt Town
- Type: Quarter
- Description: area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.49367° or 51° 29′ 37″ northLongitude
-0.00824° or 0° 0′ 30″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
9C3XFXVR+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 27365040OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Cubitt Town” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cubitt Town”
- Chinese: “庫比特鎮”
- Dutch: “Cubitt Town”
- French: “Cubitt Town”
- Hindi: “कुबिट टाउन”
- Irish: “Cubitt Town”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cubitt Town”
- Norwegian: “Cubitt Town”
- Slovenian: “Cubitt Town”
- Turkish: “Cubitt Town”
- Urdu: “کیوبٹ ٹاؤن، لندن”
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Highlights include Orchard and Lower Field.
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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 “Cubitt Town”. Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.