Silvertown

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Silvertown
Essex
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Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, Silvertown
Location
Grid reference: TQ415795
Location: 51°30’0"N, 0°1’48"E
Data
Post town: LONDON
Postcode: E16
Dialling code: 020
Local Government
Council: Newham
Parliamentary
constituency:
East Ham

Silvertown is a town in Essex on the north bank of the River Thames, with North Woolwich to the east and Charlton across the river to the south.

The town developed in the 1850s around a rubber works set up by S.W. Silver and Co and was once home to numerous industrial works. It is still home to a large Tate & Lyle sugar refinery.

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