Execution Dock
Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wapping railway station and The Tower of London.
Wapping railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wapping is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located on the northern bank of the River Thames in Wapping within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The Tower of London
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The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in London, England.
Tower Bridge
Bridge
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Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wapping and Shadwell.
Wapping
Suburb
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Wapping is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. Wapping is on the north bank of the River Thames, and was at one time a district with a strong maritime character.
Shadwell
Suburb
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Shadwell is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England. It also forms part of the city's East End. Shadwell is on the north bank of the River Thames between Wapping and Ratcliff and Limehouse and is 3 miles east of Charing Cross.
Bermondsey
Suburb
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Bermondsey is a district in southeast London, part of the London Borough of Southwark, England, 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of Charing Cross. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe and Deptford, to the south Walworth and Peckham, and to the north is Wapping across the River Thames.
Execution Dock
- Type: Locality
- Description: site of executions in Wapping, London
- Categories: gallows and historic site
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50342° or 51° 30′ 12″ northLongitude
-0.0572° or 0° 3′ 26″ westOpen location code
9C3XGW3V+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 10926247651OpenStreetMap feature
historic=gallowsOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q1271020
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Japanese—“Execution Dock” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Execution Dock”
- French: “Execution Dock”
- German: “Execution Dock”
- Hebrew: “אקסקיושן דוק”
- Hebrew: “גרדום תלייה”
- Italian: “Execution Dock”
- Japanese: “処刑ドック”
- Japanese: “海賊処刑場”
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