East London
East London is the part of London, England, east of the ancient City of London and north of the River Thames as it begins to widen. East London developed as London's docklands and the primary industrial centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mile End tube station and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park.
Mile End tube station
Metro station
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Mile End is a London Underground station in Mile End, London. It is in London fare zone 2 and is served by three lines: Central, District and Hammersmith & City.
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Nature reserve
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a historic cemetery,public park and local nature reserve in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets within the East End of London.
Limehouse station
Railway station
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East End and Bow.
East End
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The East End is a district of inner London. The boundaries of the East End are not well defined, but for the purposes of this page it covers from the edge of The City to the River Lea or the old boundaries of the former borough of Poplar.
Bow
Suburb
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Bow is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is an inner-city suburb located 4.6 miles east of Charing Cross.
Stepney
Suburb
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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.
East London
- Type: Locality
- Description: northeastern part of London, United Kingdom
- Category: subregion
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover East London from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Xhosa—“East London” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شرق لندن”
- Basque: “East London”
- Bengali: “পূর্ব লন্ডন”
- Catalan: “East London”
- Catalan: “North East London”
- Chinese: “东伦敦”
- Chinese: “伦敦/东伦敦”
- Chinese: “伦敦东部”
- Chinese: “倫敦東部”
- Chinese: “東倫敦 (倫敦地區)”
- Chinese: “東倫敦”
- Dutch: “East London”
- Estonian: “Ida-London”
- French: “East London”
- Galician: “East London”
- Hebrew: “לונדון/אזור הפרברים המזרחי”
- Hebrew: “מזרח לונדון”
- Icelandic: “Austur-London”
- Icelandic: “Austur-Lundúnir”
- Italian: “Est di Londra”
- Italian: “Londra est”
- Japanese: “イースト・ロンドン”
- Japanese: “東ロンドン”
- Malagasy: “East London”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “East London”
- Ossetian: “Скæсæн Лондон”
- Russian: “Восток”
- Russian: “Восточный Лондон”
- Russian: “Лондон/Восток”
- Serbian: “Источни Лондон”
- Slovenian: “East London”
- Swedish: “East London, England”
- Swedish: “East London”
- Sylheti: “ꠁꠡ꠆ꠐ ꠟꠘ꠆ꠒꠘ”
- Sylheti: “ꠖꠇꠘꠅ ꠟꠘ꠆ꠒꠘ”
- Ukrainian: “Східний Лондон”
- Urdu: “مشرقی لندن”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Bắc”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Luân Đôn”
- Western Panjabi: “مشرقی لندن”
- Xhosa: “EMonti”
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