Botanic Square

Botanic Square is a square in Newham, Greater London, England. Botanic Square is situated near the fitness club The Strength Room, as well as near the art gallery arebyte Gallery.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Canning Town station and Bow Creek Ecology Park.

Canning Town station

Railway station

Photo: Romazur, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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. Canning Town station is situated 1,000 feet northeast of Botanic Square.

Bow Creek Ecology Park

Park

Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bow Creek Ecology Park is a small open space along Bow Creek tidal estuary of the River Lea in Canning Town in Newham, in east London. It is operated by the regional Lee Valley Park system. Bow Creek Ecology Park is situated 550 feet northwest of Botanic Square.

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 Blackwall Yard and Canning Town.

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.

Canning Town

Suburb

Photo: Ian Cunliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.