Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Poplar

Poplar, par. (ry. stations Poplar and Poplar East India Road), Middlesex, on river Thames, between Lime-house reach and Blackwall reach, in E. of London and in bor. of Tower Hamlets, 1164 ac., pop. 55,077; includes Blackwall and the Isle of Dogs, and contains the East India and West India Docks.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Poplar CP/ExP/Ch       Middlesex AncC
Place: Poplar

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