The GREAT EASTERN
The GREAT EASTERN is a memorial in Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England. The GREAT EASTERN is situated nearby to the community center Madina Jamme Masjid, as well as near the neighborhood Burrells Wharf.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cutty Sark and Royal Observatory.
Cutty Sark
Museum
Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. Cutty Sark is situated 2,900 feet southeast of The GREAT EASTERN.
Royal Observatory
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north. Royal Observatory is situated 1 mile southeast of The GREAT EASTERN.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. National Maritime Museum is situated 4,100 feet southeast of The GREAT EASTERN.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burrells Wharf and Millwall.
Burrells Wharf
Neighborhood
Photo: Alctanay, Public domain.
Burrells Wharf is a riverside residential estate, owned by its leaseholders, in London, England. It is situated on the Isle of Dogs and the north bank of the River Thames.
Millwall
Quarter
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of Rotherhithe, west of Cubitt Town, and has a long shoreline along London's Tideway, part of the River Thames.
Cubitt Town
Quarter
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, after whom it is named.
The GREAT EASTERN
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “THE GREAT EASTERN (launched 1858) largest steamship of the century was built here by I.K. Brunel and J.Scott Russell”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.48826° or 51° 29′ 18″ northLongitude
-0.01885° or 0° 1′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C3XFXQJ+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 8063095727OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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