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Custom House

Custom House is an area in the , in , England. The area is named after the custom house of . Today the dock is used for recreation but, in the past, it dominated the industry and commerce of the area from 1855 until the 1940s before closing in 1980.
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  • Type: Quarter with 9,600 residents
  • Description: district of the London Borough of Newham in East London, England
  • Also known as: “Custom House, London” and “Custom House, Newham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include ExCeL London and Custom House station.

Convention center
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is an international exhibition and convention centre in the Custom House area of , East . The facility is situated on a 100-acre site on the northern quay of the in , located between and .

Railway station
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Custom House is an interchange station by the Royal Docks, in Custom House in the , for Docklands Light Railway – on which it is branded Custom House for ExCeL – and Elizabeth line services.

Railway station
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is on the Docklands Light Railway in , east London. The station opened in 1994 and is named after the nearby .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canning Town and Royal Wharf.

Suburb
Photo: Ian Cunliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a district of in the , , England, north of the . Its urbanisation was largely due to the creation of the dock.

Neighborhood
is a residential and commercial development in Newham, London located on the north bank of the in Silvertown. It is built on the former site of Minoco Wharf and is near the , west of , and close to both West Silvertown and Pontoon Dock DLR stations.

Suburb
Photo: Alistair1978, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a district of in the , in , England. It lies on the north bank of the and was historically part of the parishes of and , hundred of Becontree, and the historic county of .

Custom House

Latitude
51.51126° or 51° 30′ 41″ north
Longitude
0.02544° or 0° 1′ 32″ east
Population
9,600
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
9F32G26G+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7628473009
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
12048335
Wiki­data ID
Q5196386
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Custom House” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Custom House (Newham)”
  • Basque: “Custom House”
  • French: “Custom House”
  • Irish: “Custom House, Londain”
  • Irish: “Custom House”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Custom House”
  • Norwegian: “Custom House”
  • Turkish: “Custom House”
  • Urdu: “کسٹم ہاؤس، نیوہیم”

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Notable Places Nearby

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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 “Custom House”. Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.