12 Facts About Hackney Wick

Hackney Wick is the south-eastern part of the historic district of Hackney, and of the wider modern London Borough of Hackney.

Historically, Hackney Wick was an area prone to periodic flooding.

The former Hackney Wick Brook once flowed through the area, with a confluence with the Lea a short distance to the south in Old Ford.

Hackney Wick employed the brilliant organic chemist Arthur George Green from 1885 until 1894, when he left to join the Clayton Aniline Company in Manchester and ultimately, when the British chemical industry failed his talents, to the chair of Colour Chemistry at Leeds University.

At Hackney Wick, Green discovered the important dyestuff intermediate Primuline.

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Hackney Wick was a contemporary of the organic chemist Richard John Friswell who was from 1874 a research chemist, and from 1886 until 1899 director and chemical manager.

Hackney Wick worked at Hackney Wick from 1877 until 1885, where Meldola's Blue was discovered.

Part of the Hackney Wick was redeveloped in the 1960s to create the Greater London Council's Trowbridge Estate, which consisted of single-storey modern housing at the foot of seven 21-storey tower blocks.

Hackney Wick has a long been home to a large number of professional creatives, artists and musicians.

Hackney Wick is mentioned in an exchange of dialogue in The Ribos Operation, a 1978 episode of Doctor Who, as being a "mudpatch in the middle of nowhere" that one of the characters longs to return to.

Hackney Wick is connected to the National Road Network, with the A12 Eastway, and East Cross Route linking the area with the Blackwall Tunnel.

Hackney Wick is on the Capital Ring walking route, much of which is accessible to cyclists.