England
Greater London
Tower Hamlets

Bow

Bow is a district in East , England and is in the . It is an inner-city suburb located 4.6 miles east of .
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  • Type: Suburb with 27,700 residents
  • Description: district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
  • Also known as: “Bow, England” and “Bow, London”

Places of Interest

Highlights include London Stadium and Bow Church DLR station.

Stadium
Photo: Arne mueseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
is a multi-purpose outdoor at in the district of . It is located in the Lower Lea Valley, 6 miles east of central London.

Railway station
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Bow Church is a Docklands Light Railway station in Bow, London, . It is between and stations.

Metro station
Photo: Thryduulf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bow Road is a London Underground station located on Bow Road in Bow, London, . It is on the District and Hammersmith & City lines. The station is interlinked as an out of station interchange with on the Docklands Light Railway which is about 300 m away via Bow Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Ford and Bow Quarter.

Quarter
Photo: Ekphraster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area in the that is named after the natural ford which provided a crossing of the .

Neighborhood
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is a gated community in Bow in the . The building was originally the Bryant and May match factory, and was the site of the Match Girls' strike in the 1880s.

Suburb
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is an area in , England and is located in the . It is in and part of the . It is 4.2 miles east of .

Bow

Latitude
51.53094° or 51° 31′ 51″ north
Longitude
-0.02749° or 0° 1′ 39″ west
Population
27,700
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGXJF+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27365045
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2655076
Wiki­data ID
Q122607
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Bow” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Bow”
  • Belarusian: “Боў”
  • Catalan: “Bow”
  • Chinese: “寶”
  • Chinese: “寶區”
  • Chinese: “鮑”
  • Chinese: “鮑區”
  • Dutch: “Bow”
  • French: “Bow”
  • Galician: “Bow”
  • German: “Bow”
  • Hebrew: “באו”
  • Hindi: “बो”
  • Irish: “Bow, Londain”
  • Irish: “Bow”
  • Italian: “Bow”
  • Japanese: “バウ (ロンドン)”
  • Japanese: “バウ”
  • Japanese: “ボウ”
  • Malay: “Bow, London”
  • Malay: “Bow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bow, Tower Hamlets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bow”
  • Norwegian: “Bow”
  • Persian: “بو، لندن”
  • Polish: “Bow”
  • Russian: “Боу”
  • Slovenian: “Bow”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بو، لندن”
  • Spanish: “Bow”
  • Swedish: “Bow, London”
  • Swedish: “Bow”
  • Turkish: “Bow”
  • Urdu: “بو، لندن”
  • Vietnamese: “Bow, Luân Đôn”
  • Vietnamese: “Bow”
  • Yue Chinese: “寶”

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