Cubitt Town is an area on the Isle of DogsinTower HamletsinLondon, England. It is on the east of the Isle, facing Greenwich across the River Thames. To the west is Millwall, to the northwest Canary Wharf and to the north, across the Blue Bridge, Blackwall.
It is named after William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London (1860–1862), who was responsible for the development of the housing and amenities of the area in the 1840s and 1850s, mainly to house the growing population of workers in the local docks, shipbuilding yards and factories.[1] As it grew, Cubitt also created many local businesses employing manual labourers as well as the streets of housing to accommodate them.
The businesses included those involved in cement, pottery and brick production. Asphalt production was another growth industry, coinciding with the growth, development, and industrialisation of areas throughout the British Isles. In Cubitt Town, the Pyrimont Wharf was developed in 1861 by the Asphalte de Seyssel Company of Thames Embankment (later known as the Seyssel Asphalte Company or Seyssel Pyrimont Asphalte Company), with asphalt production taken over in the 1870s by Claridge's Patent Asphalte Company.[1][2]
Estates in the area include:
The area is a mix of old east London working-class communities transplanted into 1960s and 1970s high-rise estates and the middle-class workers in the Canary Wharf complex attracted by relatively low prices for riverside living, plus less recent Bangladeshi and East Asian immigrant populations.
This area has had a number off shipbuilders companies based in Cubitt Town, such as Westwood, Baillie, Samuda Brothers, J & W Dudgeon and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
Noteworthy ships launched here included HMS Prince Albert, the first British warship designed to carry her main armament in gun turrets.
The nearest stations are Crossharbour and Island Gardens on the Docklands Light Railway
Routes 135, D3, D6, D7, D8, N550.
Cubitt Town is connected to the National Road Network by the north-south Manchester Road A1206.
Access across the River Thames is by the Greenwich Foot Tunnel and the National Cycle Route 1 to the west (this also uses the Greenwich Foot Tunnel).
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