London Yard
London Yard was a shipyard in Cubitt Town, London, in use between around 1856 and 1908 by various shipbuilding companies, including Westwood, Baillie and Yarrow Shipbuilders.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
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.
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.
The O2 Arena
Theater building
Photo: Heuschrecke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The O2 Arena, commonly known as the O2, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the centre of The O2 entertainment district on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cubitt Town and St John’s Estate.
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.
St John’s Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John's Estate is a housing scheme in Cubitt Town, on the Isle of Dogs in London. Centred on the triangle formed by Manchester Road, East Ferry Road and Glengall Grove, it was developed by Poplar Borough Council after the Second World War.
Isle of Dogs
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England. It includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts.
London Yard
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: shipyard in the UK
- Categories: shipyard, residential area, and locality
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4947° or 51° 29′ 41″ northLongitude
-0.00685° or 0° 0′ 25″ westOpen location code
9C3XFXVV+V7OpenStreetMap ID
way 52036983OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q6671032
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