Blackwall and Cubitt Town

Blackwall and Cubitt Town is a locality in Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England. Blackwall and Cubitt Town is situated nearby to the neighborhood St John’s Estate, as well as near Wood Wharf.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The O2 Arena and Cutty Sark.

The O2 Arena

Theater building

Photo: Heuschrecke, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The O2 Arena, locally referred to as The O2, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the centre of The O2 entertainment district on the Greenwich Peninsula in south east London, England.

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.

South Quay DLR station

Railway station

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

South Quay is a Docklands Light Railway station on the Isle of Dogs, East London, England. The station is between Crossharbour and Heron Quays stations and is in London fare zone 2.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St John’s Estate and Wood Wharf.

St John’s Estate

Neighborhood

Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John's Estate is a housing estate 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.

Wood Wharf

Neighborhood

Photo: CanaryWharfGroup, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wood Wharf is a 23 acres new-build mixed-use neighbourhood in London Docklands. It is immediately east of Canary Wharf on the northern quayside of the South Dock of West India Docks.

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.

Blackwall and Cubitt Town

Type: Locality
Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.50004° or 51° 30′ 0″ north

Longitude

-0.00656° or 0° 0′ 24″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

9C3XGX2V+29

GeoNames ID

12048286

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