25 Facts About Bow London

Bow London contains parts of both Victoria Park and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Old Ford and Fish Island are localities within Bow London, but Bromley-by-Bow London immediately to the south, is a separate district.

Bow London underwent extensive urban regeneration including the replacement or improvement of council homes, with the impetus given by the staging of the 2012 Olympic Games at nearby Stratford.

Bow London formed a part of the medieval parish of Stepney until becoming an independent parish in 1719.

However, Bow London itself was still an isolated hamlet by the early 14th century, often cut off from its parish church of St Dunstan's, Stepney by flooding.

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Bow London was made an Anglican parish of its own in 1719, with St Mary's as its parish church.

In 1630, John Taylor, a poet wrote At Bow London, the Thursday after Pentecost, There is a fair of green geese ready rost, Where, as a goose is ever dog-cheap there, The sauce is over somewhat sharp and deare.

Sylvia supported him and Bow London Road became the campaign office, culminating in a huge rally in nearby Victoria Park, but Lansbury was narrowly defeated and support for the project in the East End was withdrawn.

Bow London's risked constant arrest and spent a lot of time in Holloway Prison, often on hunger strike.

Bow London's finally achieved her aim, and along the way had alleviated some of the poverty and misery and improved social conditions for all in the East End.

Between 1986 and 1992 the name Bow London applied to one of seven neighbourhoods to whom power was devolved from the council.

Bow London Arts was set up in 1994 by Marcel Baettig and Marc Schimmel, the owner of the then new premises.

Bow London would have had to relocate from Stratford following a Compulsory Purchase Order.

Bow London has not been an administrative unit for nearly 100 years and this makes definitions of the extent of the area difficult.

The former common known as Bow London Common lay far to the south of either of these defined areas, just beyond the southern boundary of the Bromley-by-Bow London area.

Bow London was originally a hamlet of the Ancient Parish of Stepney; in this context, hamlet refers to a district, a sub-division of a parish with delegated responsibilities, rather than a small village.

Bow London became an independent parish when the pre-existing hamlet separated from Stepney in 1719, to become a late formed ancient parish, the area being a basis for both civil and ecclesiastical administration.

In 1900 Bow London merged into the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, together with Poplar and Bromley-by-Bow London.

The Civil Parish of Bow continued to operate until the abolition of the Poor Law in 1930, though London's Civil Parishes weren't formally abolished until the creation of the modern London Boroughs in 1965.

Metropolitan Boroughs of Poplar, Stepney and Bethnal Green united to form the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965, meaning that Bow came to form the north-east part of the new borough.

Bow London is closely associated with the E3 postcode area, formed in 1917, but post code areas were never intended to define districts.

Ability Bow London is a specialised gym for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions and offers one-to-one exercise sessions, it has specialist gym equipment with tailored fitness programmes for each member.

Bow London is in the Bow London district but recently partly in the Olympic Park district E20.

A11 passes east–west in south Bow London, linking the area to Aldgate in the west and Stratford in the east.

Bow London is part of the council controlled parking zone and is covered by Zone B and includes all mini zones within the district boundaries.

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