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The Highway is a mile-long road in the East End of London, with several historic landmarks nearby. The term East End is most commonly used to refer to the East End of London. ...
The route dates back to Roman times, and was called Ratcliff Highway in the Georgian era.
- For other Highways, please see Highway (disambiguation)
Highway usually refers to a road, but can also mean: Highway is the name of a 2002 movie starring Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal. ...
Location
The Highway runs between the edge of The City and Limehouse: parallel-to and south of Commercial Road, the Docklands Light Railway and Cable Street. It connects East Smithfield and the Limehouse Link tunnel. This article is about a small section of central London. ...
Limehouse Town Hall in 2004 Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
Commercial Road (A13) in the East End of London runs from Gardeners Corner to Burdett Road where is becomes the East India Dock Road. ...
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a light rail public transport metro for the redeveloped Docklands area of eastern London. ...
The road forms an unofficial boundary to Wapping, which lies between the River Thames and The Highway. The road is also close to Shadwell Basin (to the south east), Tower Hill (to the west), and Whitechapel and Stepney (to the north). Wapping is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
The word Tower Hill has several meanings: Tower Hill is a private co-educational school in Wilmington, DE. Tower Hill is an elevated spot outside the Tower of London. ...
Whitechapel is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
The Highway is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in postal district E1. It lies within the parliamentary constituencies of Bethnal Green and Bow and [[Poplar and Canning Town (UK Parliament constituency)|Poplar and Canning Town. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London. ...
E1 is the London East Head Postal District. ...
Bethnal Green and Bow is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Landmarks (west to east) - St Katharine Docks
- Wellclose Square
- St Paul's Primary School
- News International
- Telford’s Yard – a converted Victorian wool warehouse
- The Caxton (until recently The Artichoke) public house – displays newspaper history on the walls
- Site of the 1st Ratcliff Highway murders
- The Old Rose public house
- Tobacco Dock - the old warehouses for imported tobacco, converted to retail outlets, but closed up by 2000
- Church of St George in the East
- Eluna Apartments – new flats replaced Babe Ruth’s Restaurant
- St George's Recreation Ground
- St George’s Swimming Pool
- Green Gables Montessori School
- Church of St Paul's, Shadwell - the Church of Sea Captains
- Shadwell Basin – the old dock now used for watersports and fishing
- King Edward VII Memorial Park – giving access to the River Thames
- Express by Holiday Inn Limehouse – 3 star hotel with 150 rooms, built in 2004
- Limehouse Link tunnel
The St Katharine Docks were one of the commercial docks serving London, and are situated on the north side of the river Thames just east (downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. ...
News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...
St George in the East is one of six Hawksmoor churches in London. ...
The Montessori method is a methodology for nursery and elementary school education, first developed by Dr. Maria Montessori. ...
Length 346 km Elevation of the source 110 m Average discharge entering Oxford: 17. ...
This article is about the hotel chain; for the film, please see Holiday Inn (film). ...
Transport ROAD
The Highway is a major arterial route into and out of The City, and is busy during London rush hours. There are 2 lanes in each direction throughout its length. It lies outside of the London Congestion Charge zone. This article is about a small section of central London. ...
The white-on-red C marks all entrances to the Congestion Charge zone. ...
There are no cycle facilities, and most cyclists use the cycle paths in Cable Street to the north.
BUS There are few bus stops on The Highway, but buses 100 and D3 pass along short lengths of it to get to Wapping and Shadwell.
RAIL Shadwell is a district of Stepney in Tower Hamlets, London. ...
Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ...
St Pauls Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London in London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. ...
The Elephant and Castle, commonly shortened to the Elephant is a major road intersection in inner south London, and is also used as a name for the surrounding district. ...
Isle of Dogs is also a play by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson. ...
Limehouse Town Hall in 2004 Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
Shadwell is a district of Stepney in Tower Hamlets, London. ...
Bethnal Green is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the heart of Londons East End. ...
- all in London Transport's Zone 2
London Underground stations: Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ...
Docklands Light Railway stations: Shadwell tube station Shadwell is the name of a London Underground station and a Docklands Light Railway station in Shadwell, east London, both in zone 2. ...
The East London Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured orange on the Tube map. ...
Wapping is a London Underground station near Wapping in east London, England. ...
The East London Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured orange on the Tube map. ...
Categories: Circle Line stations | District Line stations | London Underground stubs ...
This article is about a part of the London Underground. ...
The District Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. ...
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a light rail public transport metro for the redeveloped Docklands area of eastern London. ...
National Rail stations: Shadwell tube station Shadwell is the name of a London Underground station and a Docklands Light Railway station in Shadwell, east London, both in zone 2. ...
Limehouse station is a railway station located in Limehouse district of east London. ...
National Rail uses the BR double arrow logo National Rail is a brand name describing the passenger rail service previously provided by British Rail, the now defunct UK state-owned rail operator. ...
AIR Limehouse station is a railway station located in Limehouse district of east London. ...
London City Airport is a single-runway STOLPORT situated in East London in the London Borough of Newham developed by the private engineering company Mowlem in 1986/87. ...
People Some names associated with the area
Members of Parliament, Bethnal Green and Bow : Bethnal Green and Bow is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Members of Parliament, Poplar and Canning Town : George Galloway featured on BBC Newsnight George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, and the Respect Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow in East London, England. ...
RESPECT The Unity Coalition is a socialist British political party founded on January 25, 2004 in London. ...
Oona Tamsyn King (born October 22, 1967) is a British politician, and was Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green & Bow until the 2005 election. ...
The Labour Party is a a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
Poplar and Canning Town is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Victorian Era: James Fitzpatrick (born 4 April 1952) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is a a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
- Oscar Wilde visited the opium dens near Dellow Street
- Arthur Conan Doyle visited the opium dens as research for his detective character Sherlock Holmes.
- Charles Jamrach was the most extensive dealer in wild animals in the world, and had his shop on The Highway.
- Captain James Cook lived in the area, and baptised some of his children at St Paul's, Shadwell, on Ratcliff Highway
- Thomas Jefferson's mother was baptised at St Paul's, Shadwell, on Ratcliff Highway
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ...
Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ...
Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. ...
British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ...
Order: Third President Vice President: Aaron Burr; George Clinton Term of office: March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809 Preceded by: John Adams Succeeded by: James Madison Date of birth: April 13, 1743 Place of birth: Shadwell, Virginia Date of death: July 4, 1826 Place of death: Charlottesville, Virginia First Lady...
History Ratcliff Highway
The route of this road was shown in maps for maps for Roman London. It ran just above the low lying tidal marshes of Wapping, and gave direct to the red clay banks (red cliffs) of Radcliffe (now Limehouse).
A Roman bath house was excavated in 2004, by the junction of The Highway and Wapping Lane. The discovery of women’s jewellery along with soldier’s possessions, suggests that this location outside of the Roman walls allowed less restricted use of the baths than those in the City itself. The remains of the baths and under-floor heating system were re-buried (for later archaeologists) under the car park of the new flats.
By 1908, Ratcliff Highway had different names for each of its sections. From west to east these ran: "St. George's Street East", "High Street (Shadwell) ", "Cock Hill", "Broad Street.
The whole of the central area of The Highway was named after St George in the East church and its parish. St George in the East is one of six Hawksmoor churches in London. ...
The printing union’s 1986 dispute with News International led to a prolonged and sometimes violent pickets of the media corporation’s Wapping works (nicknamed "Fortress Wapping"), just off The Highway in Virginia Street.
Trivia The Highway is on the route of the annual London Marathon and the London Triathlon, for which the road is closed to traffic for most of the Sunday. Competitors at the London Marathon 2003 Crowds turn out on the Victoria Embankment to watch the London Marathon 2005 Fun runners surge out of the Blackfriars Bridge underpass onto the Victoria Embankment; four hours down and two miles to go The London Marathon is a marathon race that has been...
Neighbouring Streets west of The Highway north of The Highway starting from the west: - Dock Street - already existed as Dock Street in 1830
- Ensign Street - formerly Wells Street (in 1862)
- Graces Alley
- Wellclose Square - already existed as Wellclose Square in 1830 & 1862
- Swedenbourg Gardens
- Princes Square – no longer exists: replaced by a small park
- Betts Street - formerly connected Cable Street to The Highway (in 1862)
- Crowder Street - formerly Denmark Street (in 1862)
- Cannon Street Road
- Dellow Street
- Solander Gardens
- King David Lane
- Juniper Street - formerly Juniper Row (in 1862)
- Tarbert Walk
- Redcastle Close - formerly Carriage Way (in 1862)
- Glamis Road
- Glamis Place
- Brodlove Lane - formerly Love Lane (in 1862)
- Elf Row - formerly Elm Row (in 1862)
- Glasshouse Fields - formerly Glasshouse Street (in 1862)
- Schoolhouse Lane
- Heckford Street - formerly Burlington Place (in 1862). No longer connected to Cable Street, this is now a small wholesaler park for electrical and building trades.
- Ratcliffe Orchard - formerly The Orchard (in 1862)
east of The Highway - Butcher Row - formerly Butcher Row and White Horse Street (in 1862)
- Narrow Street
- Limehouse Link – a road tunnel to:
south of The Highway starting from the west: Narrow Street, is just that, a narrow street running parallel to the River Thames through the Limehouse area of east London. ...
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- Vaughan Way
- Virginia Street - existed by 1862
- Telford's Yard
- Breezers Hill - existed by 1862
- Artichoke Hill - existed by 1862 (the escape route for the Ratcliff Highway murderers)
- Chigwell Hill - existed by 1862
- Pennington Street - existed by 1862
- Wapping Lane - formerly Old Gravel Lane (in 1862)
- Sovereign Close
- Princes Court
- West Gardens - existed by 1862
- Rum Close
- Garnet Street - formerly New Gravel Lane (in 1862)
- Newlands Quay - formerly Elbow Lane (in 1862)
- Maynards Quay
- Glamis Road
- Pear Tree Lane - formerly Fox's Lane (in 1862). Named after The Pear Tree, the inn where the second group of Ratcliff Highway murders took place.
- Shadwell Basin – leading to the water sports activity centre in the former dock
- Jardine Road
- Rialto Avenue
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