Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Victoria Docks

Victoria Docks, eccl. dist. (ry. stations Tidal Basin and Custom House), West Ham par., Essex, on river Thames, opposite Woolwich and 4½ miles E. of Fenchurch Street sta., London, pop. 16,821; Victoria Docks (formed 1855) have steam communication with Blackwall.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: West Ham AP/CP       Essex AncC
Place: Victoria Dock

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