Poplar Transmitter

Poplar Transmitter is a tower in Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England. Poplar Transmitter is situated nearby to the apartment building Balfron Tower, as well as near the community center The Brownfield Cabin and Social Club.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Balfron Tower and All Saints DLR station.

Balfron Tower

Apartment building

Photo: Graeme Maclean, CC BY 2.0.

Balfron Tower is a 27-storey residential building in Poplar, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London. Built in a Brutalist style, it forms part of the Brownfield Estate, an area of social housing between Chrisp Street Market and the A12 northern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel.

All Saints DLR station

Railway station

Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.

All Saints is a Docklands Light Railway station in Poplar in East London. The station is named after nearby All Saints, a Church of England parish church dating from 1821 to 1823. All Saints DLR station is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Poplar Transmitter.

River Lea

River

Photo: Jamsta, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The River Lea is a river in the East of England and Greater London. It originates in Bedfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, and flows southeast through Hertfordshire, along the Essex border and into Greater London, to meet the River Thames at Bow Creek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Poplar and Blackwall Yard.

Poplar

Suburb

Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Poplar is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located five miles east of Charing Cross and lies on the western bank of the River Lea.

Blackwall Yard

Locality

Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for over 350 years. The yard closed in 1987.

Blackwall

Suburb

Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Blackwall is an area of Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. The neighbourhood includes Leamouth and the Coldharbour conservation area.

Poplar Transmitter

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

51.51329° or 51° 30′ 48″ north

Longitude

-0.00881° or 0° 0′ 32″ west

Height

6.6 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

9C3XGX7R+8F

OpenStreetMap ID

node 14234757893

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=tower

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