Hackney Wick 5.34

4.4 star(s) from 167 votes
London, E9 5
United Kingdom

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Hackney Wick is an area of east London in the London Borough of Hackney and Tower Hamlets, adjacent to the boundary with Old Ford in Tower Hamlets. It is an inner-city development situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Charing Cross. West of its area, and with greater tube access, lies Hackney Central, the historic centre of Hackney Borough.Hackney Wick is in the far east of the borough and it is at the southern tip of Hackney Marshes and includes part of 2012 Olympic Park west of the River Lea, (traditionally the boundary between Middlesex and Essex) and forms part of the Lower Lea Valley. Here it abuts the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the London Borough of Newham. West of the 'old' River Lea The Lee Navigation, here called Hackney Cut meets the Hertford Union Canal.HistoryEarly historyIn Roman times the River Lea was a wide, fast flowing river, and the tidal estuary stretched as far as Hackney Wick. In 894, a force of Danes sailed up the river to Hertford; Alfred the Great saw an opportunity to defeat the Danes and ordered the lower reaches of the Lea drained, at Leamouth. This left the Danes' boats stranded, but also increased the flow of the river and caused the tidal head to move downriver to Old Ford.

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