Canning Town
Canning Town is a railway stop in Newham, Greater London, England. Canning Town is situated nearby to the railway station DLR Rotunda, as well as near the square Town Place.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Canning Town station and River Lea.
Canning Town station
Railway station
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Canning Town is an interchange station located in Canning Town, London. It provides Jubilee line services of the London Underground, and the Docklands Light Railway.
River Lea
River
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The River Lea is 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.
Leamouth Lifting Footbridge
Bridge
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The Leamouth Lifting Footbridge or Leamouth North Bridge is a steel lifting arch bridge for pedestrians over Bow Creek, the estuary of the River Lea. It connects Leamouth in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to Canning Town in the London Borough of Newham. Leamouth Lifting Footbridge is situated 450 feet northwest of Canning Town.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canning Town and Blackwall Yard.
Canning Town
Suburb
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Canning Town is a district of the London Borough of Newham, East London, England, north of the Royal Victoria Dock. Its urbanisation was largely due to the creation of the dock.
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.
Custom House
Quarter
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Custom House is an area in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, England. The area is named after the custom house of Royal Victoria Dock. 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.
Canning Town
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Newham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.51369° or 51° 30′ 49″ northLongitude
0.00858° or 0° 0′ 31″ eastOperator
London UndergroundOpen location code
9F32G275+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1690301281OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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