St Katharine Docks in London

10 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  11 minutes

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk - Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk – Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

St Katharine Docks is a former dock in the St Katherine and Wapping ward of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies in the East End on the north bank of the River Thames, immediately downstream of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. From 1828 to 1968, it was one of the commercial docks that made up the Port of London. It is in the redevelopment zone known as the London Docklands and is now a popular housing and leisure complex.   read more…

Tower Hill in London

30 October 2019 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  5 minutes

Tower Hill and Tower of London © flickr.com - Sheri/cc-by-sa-2.0

Tower Hill and Tower of London © flickr.com – Sheri/cc-by-sa-2.0

Tower Hill is a complex city or garden square northwest of the Tower of London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets just outside the City of London boundary yet inside what remains of the London Wall – a large fragment of which survives toward its east.   read more…

The Docklands in London

23 January 2013 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  9 minutes

Canary Wharf from Thames © S nova

Canary Wharf from Thames © S nova

Docklands is the semi-official name for an area in east and southeast London. It forms part of the boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Newham and Greenwich. The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world’s largest port. They have now been redeveloped principally for commercial and residential use. The name London Docklands was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 but has since become virtually universally adopted. It also created conflict between the new and old communities of the London Docklands.   read more…

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