Wapping, Tower Hamlets

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Wapping is a suburban area in Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wapping within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Wapping in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Wapping, par. and eccl. dist. with ry. sta., Middlesex, on river Thames, in E. of London and in parl. bor. of Tower Hamlets - par., 40 ac., pop. 2225; dist. (extending into St George in the East par.), pop. 3560; the sta. is 1½ mile SE. of Fenchurch Street sta., London; the London Docks are at Wapping.

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