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  • ...er of [[Great Britain]]. The north-western towns of Kent are within the [[London]] suburbs. Kent is considered is one of the [[home counties]]. ...ts [[Middlesex]] across the Thames, a small meeting but enough to have a [[Blackwall Tunnel|road tunnel]] carrying the A102 between them. Kent has a nominal bo
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  • | post town = London ...stinct town with its own character. Strung out eastward from the [[City of London|City's]] Aldgate is a series of villages run into one urban mass; [[Whitech
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  • ...=1976|title='A History of Gravesend|publisher=Phillimore & Co Ltd|location=London}}</ref> ...of Gravesend was born when the bodies of those who died from the plague in London were buried in the town in attempts to put an end to it. Hence the name Gra
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  • |picture=Royal London Hospital redevelopment.jpg |picture caption=The new Royal London Hospital building
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  • |post town=London '''Canning Town''' is a town in [[Essex]], within the London metropolitan conurbation. It is situated between [[Plaistow]] to the north,
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  • |post town=London ...Robin Hood Gardens housing complex (overlooking the northern portal of the Blackwall Tunnel) – designed by architects Peter and Alison Smithson – and the si
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  • ...:London Bridge Illuminated.jpg|right|thumb|300px|London Bridge, in central London]] [[File:London Bridge (1616) by Claes Van Visscher.jpg|right|thumb|300px|London Bridge in 1616, by Claes Van Visscher]]
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  • |post town=London ...opened about 1840.<ref>Charles Lammin ''Memories of Orchard House'' (East London History Society, 1961)</ref>
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  • | post town = London ...a town on the [[Isle of Dogs]] in south-eastern [[Middlesex]], within the London conurbation. It is most famous for the football team Millwall F.C., which w
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  • [[File:Aerial view of London from LHR approach (03).jpg|thumb|Aerial view the Isle of Dogs in 2015. The ...iddlesex]] bordering [[Surrey]], [[Kent]] and [[Essex]] within the Greater London conurbation. It was formerly a true island; bounded to the west, south and
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  • ...ndustrial area around [[St Austell]]. The central scheme was backed by the London and South Western Railway while the coastal scheme was promoted by the Corn ...II 1863–1921| publisher = Great Western Railway| year = 1931| location = London}}</ref> The Admiralty again rejected this plan, stipulating that there shou
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  • Plans for an 'Eastern Avenue' in London had been proposed as early as 1915, and the Eastern Avenue Extension was ca ...ndon Ringways{{#tag:ref|An expressway inner circular, referred to as the ''London Motorway Box''|group= n}} plan.<ref name=CBRDM11/>
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  • |post town= London, Erith ...es/siteSummariesDetailsAll.asp?year=summaries1997&borough=Bexley Museum of London Archaeological Service site summaries 1997], accessed 27 May 2008</ref> Acc
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  • ...rside is known as ''Blackwall Point'', and this may have led to the name ''Blackwall Peninsula'' sometimes being used in the late 20th century.<ref>e.g. Hansard ...''The Dome'' (previously the Millennium Dome) and the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel, but the area is now being substantially redeveloped with new homes,
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  • *Blackwall, A 1985. 'Historic Bridges of Shropshire', Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries *Burton, A 1999. 'Thomas Telford', London: Aurum Press
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  • ...r Gateway and Bank in the [[City of London]] and east to [[Beckton]] and [[London City Airport]] with extensions across the [[River Thames]] into [[Kent]] fo ...se driverless Tube trains to break strikes |newspaper=Daily Mail |location=London |date=14 January 2011}}</ref>
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  • ...a suite of five state rooms with views over Trinity Square, The [[Tower of London]] and the [[River Thames]]. With the increasing number of ships lost along the Newcastle to London coal route, Trinity House established the Lowestoft Lighthouse in 1609, a p
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  • |post town=London ....pdf | author=Mayor of London | publisher=Greater London Authority | title=London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004) |date=February 2008 }}</ref
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  • ...Anegada#Horseshoe Reef|Horseshoe Reef]] off Anegada,<ref>''The Illustrated London News'', Vol. 47, no. 1323, p. 17-18.</ref> which resulted in another reques ...s Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, on the banks of the [[River Lea]] in Blackwall, [[Middlesex]]. The ''Paramatta'' was the last ship launched from their Mid
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  • ...Anegada#Horseshoe Reef|Horseshoe Reef]] off Anegada,<ref>''The Illustrated London News'', Vol. 47, no. 1323, p. 17-18.</ref> which resulted in another reques ...s Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, on the banks of the [[River Lea]] in Blackwall, [[Middlesex]]. The ''Paramatta'' was the last ship launched from their Mid
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  • ...fety/Thames-Bridges-Heights|title=Thames Bridges Heights|publisher=Port of London Authority|accessdate=7 August 2016}}</ref>}} with a main span of 1,475 ft.< ...ways England describe the crossing as "a trunk road link (A282) in the M25 London orbital motorway",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road
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  • |post town=London ...'' otherwise '''Bromley''', is an inner-city district in the East End of [[London]]. The ancient parish of Bromley St Leonard lies at the very south-east of
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  • [[File:Blackwall tunnel southern portal.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the Victorian bore from the Ke ...Dome on the [[Greenwich Peninsula]].} The road is managed by Transport for London (TfL).
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  • The '''Limehouse Cut''' is a straight, broad canal in the [[East End of London]], in the south-eastern corner of [[Middlesex]]. It was built to link the In an 1806 map published by London cartographer Edward Mogg the canal appears labelled as "Poplar Cut."<ref>[h
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  • ...tty Sark damaged in fire on deck|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29680243|date=19 October 2014|accessdate=26 October 2014|work=BBC News}}</r ...owed her, had a figurehead depicting Tam o' Shanter.<ref>Lubbock, Basil, ''Blackwall Frigates'', p. 229</ref>
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  • ..., Essex|Stratford]], in the [[Lower Lea Valley]]. It is very important for London's water supply, as the source of the water transported by the [[New River]] ...mportant industrial area. These included, in the early days, distance from London for noxious industries and the availability of water power. Later factors i
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  • [[File:London skyline tower bridge east.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Pool of London below Tower Bridge]] [[File:The Pool of London.jpg|right|thumb|250px|View of the Pool of London around 1938]]
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  • ...ndia-Docks-Blackwall.html|title=Damaged buildings at the East India Docks, Blackwall|publisher=Port Cities|accessdate=30 November 2019}}</ref> ...2018/03/02/londons-tower-hamlets-council-approves-100m-civic-centre/|title=London’s Tower Hamlets Council approves £100m civic centre|publisher=Constructi
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  • |post town=London ...veloped as the Noel Park Estate on a tract of land on the edge of north of London as part of the fast growing development of [[Wood Green]]. It is one of fou
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  • ...xhibition, and subsequently used for experiments at [[Bow Creek Lighthouse|Blackwall]]).<ref name=r79 /> ...ained on our Coasts. |date=1884 |publisher=Longmans, Green & co. |location=London |page=184 |url=http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv3c6cb808 |access-date=25
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