Bow, Bromley & West Ham 1914

Detailed map of Bow; London sheet 53. Introduction by Isobel Watson. Covers the area from Fairfield Road and Campbell Road eastward to Holbrook Road; from Hotham Road southward to Marner Street. The River Lea, Pudding Mill River, City Mill River, Three Mills Wall River and Channel Sea River run down through the map and join in the Bow Creek, with part of the Limehouse Cut alongside; these rivers effectively divide the map between Bow and Bromley to the west and West Ham to the east. Features on the map include Bow, Bromley and West Ham stations, Bow Goods station, many railway sidings and depots, tramways, Stratford Market, many mills and factories alongside the rivers, Abbey Mills Pumping Station, Bromley Workhouse and sick asylum, Mill Meads, Three Mills Distillery, Abbey Marsh, All Saints church West Ham, St Mary's Bow, West Ham Gas Works. Each map has street directory extracts on the reverse.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). Published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett