Weaver’s Fields

Weaver’s Fields is a park in Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England. Weaver’s Fields is situated nearby to the grassland Derbyshire Street Pocket Park, as well as near the church Spiritist Society of London.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bethnal Green railway station and Oxford House.

Bethnal Green railway station

Railway station

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Bethnal Green is a station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, located in the southern part of Bethnal Green in East London. The station is 1 mile 10 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street; the next station is either Hackney Downs or Cambridge Heath. Bethnal Green railway station is situated 740 feet southeast of Weaver’s Fields.

Oxford House

Community center

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Oxford House in Bethnal Green, East London, was established in September 1884 as one of the first "settlements" by Oxford University as a High-Anglican Church of England counterpart to Toynbee Hall, established around the same time at Whitechapel. Oxford House is situated 450 feet northeast of Weaver’s Fields.

Young V&A

Museum

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Young V&A, formerly the V&A Museum of Childhood, is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is the United Kingdom's national museum of applied arts. Young V&A is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Weaver’s Fields.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mile End New Town and Bethnal Green.

Mile End New Town

Locality

Mile End New Town is a former hamlet and then civil parish in the East End of London. Its former area is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Bethnal Green

Suburb

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Bethnal Green is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in east London and part of the East End. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road.