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The Lea Valley, the valley of the River Lea, has been used as a transport corridor, a source of sand and gravel, an industrial area, a water supply for London, and a recreational area. [1]

99 relations: A10 road (England), A1010 road, A13 road (England), Alexandra Palace, Ammonia, Bow porcelain factory, Bow Quarter, Bow, London, Brimsdown, Brimsdown Power Station, Bromley-by-Bow, Broxbourne, Cadbury, Canning Town, Cheshunt, Chingford Reservoirs, Colchester, Dudley Stamp, Edmonton, Enfield Cables, Enfield Highway, Enfield Lock, Ermine Street, Essex, Ferguson Electronics, Floodplain, Ford Motor Company, Freezywater, Fulling, Garden centre, Gas Light and Coke Company, Gestetner, Glover and Main, Great Eastern Railway, Gunpowder, Hackney Marshes, Hackney Power Station, Hackney Wick, Harpenden, Hertford, Hoddesdon, Hotpoint, JA Prestwich Industries, Johnson Matthey, Last glacial period, Lea Bridge, Lea Valley lines, Leamouth, Lee Navigation, Lee Valley Park, ..., Lee Valley Reservoir Chain, Lesney Products, Leyton, London, Lower Clapton, Lower Lea Valley, Luton, Market garden, Markfield Beam Engine and Museum, Matchbox (brand), Middlesex, MK Electric, Muswell Hill, Nazeing, New River (England), North Circular Road, Old Ford, Orchard House Yard, Owen Williams (engineer), Pan Britannica Industries, Plant nursery, Ponders End, Ramsar Convention, Ribbon development, River Lea, Roman roads in Britannia, Royal Small Arms Factory, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Stratford Works, Stratford, London, Temple Mills, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, The Blitz, Thorn Electrical Industries, Three Mills, Tottenham, Tottenham Hale, Turnford, Hertfordshire, Visteon, Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Cross, Walthamstow, Walthamstow Marshes, Ware, Hertfordshire, West Ham, West Ham Power Station, Wormley, Hertfordshire, Wright's Flour Mill, 2012 Summer Olympics. Expand index (49 more) »

A10 road (England)

The A10 (in certain sections known as Great Cambridge Road or Old North Road) is a major road in England.

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A1010 road

The A1010 is a road running through north London from Bruce Grove in Tottenham to Waltham Cross.

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A13 road (England)

The A13 is a major road in England linking Central London with east London and south Essex.

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Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed entertainment and sports venue in London, located between Muswell Hill and Wood Green.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.

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Bow porcelain factory

The Bow porcelain factory (active c. 1747–64 and closed in 1776) was an emulative rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the manufacture of early soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain.

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Bow Quarter

Bow Quarter is a gated community in Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Bow, London

Bow is a neighbourhood and parish in Greater London England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Brimsdown

Brimsdown is a neighbourhood of eastern Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, north London, on the west side of the mid-to-lower Lea Valley.

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Brimsdown Power Station

Brimsdown Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the Lee Navigation at Brimsdown in Enfield, North London.

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Bromley-by-Bow

Historically and officially known as Bromley; however it is commonly referred to as Bromley-by-Bow since 1967 due to Bromley tube station being renamed to Bromley-by-Bow, to prevent confusion with Bromley railway station in the London Borough of Bromley, is a district in Greater London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and part of the East End in East London.

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Broxbourne

Broxbourne is a commuter town in the Broxbourne borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England with a population of 13,298 in 2001, increasing to 15,303 at the 2011 Census for the sum of the two Broxbourne Wards.

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Cadbury

Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010.

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Canning Town

Canning Town is a district in the West Ham area of the London Borough of Newham in East London, England.

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Cheshunt

Cheshunt is a town in the Borough of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, lying entirely within the London Metropolitan Area and Greater London Urban Area.

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Chingford Reservoirs

The Chingford Reservoirs is the collective name for the King George V Reservoir and the William Girling Reservoir, which form part of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain in the London Boroughs of Enfield and Waltham Forest and Epping Forest in Essex.

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Colchester

Colchester is an historic market town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in the county of Essex.

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Dudley Stamp

Sir (Laurence) Dudley Stamp, CBE, DSc, D. Litt, LLD, Ekon D, DSc Nat (&ndash), was professor of geography at Rangoon and London, and one of the internationally best known British geographers of the 20th century.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Enfield Cables

Enfield Cables Ltd was a British manufacturer of electric cables.

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Enfield Highway

Enfield Highway is an area in the London Borough of Enfield, north London.

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Enfield Lock

Enfield Lock is an area in the London Borough of Enfield, north London.

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Ermine Street

Ermine Street is the name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London (Londinium) to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) and York (Eboracum).

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Ferguson Electronics

Ferguson Electronics (formerly known as Ferguson Radio Corporation) is an electronics company specializing in small electronics items such as radios and set top boxes.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Freezywater

Freezywater is a locality in the London Borough of Enfield, north London.

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Fulling

Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (spelt waulking in Scotland), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and making it thicker.

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Garden centre

A garden centre is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business.

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Gas Light and Coke Company

The Gas Light and Coke Company (also known as the Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company, and the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company), was a company that made and supplied coal gas and coke.

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Gestetner

The Gestetner is a type of duplicating machine named after its inventor, David Gestetner (18541939).

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Glover and Main

Glover and Main was a British manufacturer of gas meters and stoves located at Angel Road, Edmonton, London.

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Great Eastern Railway

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hackney Marshes

Hackney Marshes is an area of grassland on the western bank of the River Lea in the London Borough of Hackney.

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Hackney Power Station

Hackney Power Station (also known as Millfields Power Station) was a coal-fired power station situated at Lea Bridge on the River Lee Navigation in London.

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Hackney Wick

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.

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Harpenden

Harpenden is a town in the St Albans City district in the county of Hertfordshire, England.

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Hertford

Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county.

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Hoddesdon

Hoddesdon is a town in the Broxbourne borough of the English county of Hertfordshire, situated in the Lea Valley.

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Hotpoint

The Hotpoint Electric Heating Company (generally known simply as Hotpoint) is an American and European brand of domestic appliances.

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JA Prestwich Industries

JA Prestwich Industries, was an English manufacturing company named after founder John Alfred Prestwich, which was formed in 1951 by the amalgamation of J.A.Prestwich and Company Limited and Pencils Ltd.

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Johnson Matthey

Johnson Matthey is a British multinational speciality chemicals and sustainable technologies company headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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Last glacial period

The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.

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Lea Bridge

Lea Bridge is a neighbourhood and electoral ward in the Clapton area of the London Borough of Hackney.

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Lea Valley lines

The Lea Valley lines are two commuter lines and two branches in North East London, so named because they run along the Lower Lea Valley of the River Lea.

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Leamouth

Leamouth is a district in London's East End; part of Blackwall area of Poplar, in the borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Lee Navigation

The Lee Navigation is a canalised river incorporating the River Lea (also called the River Lee along the sections that are navigable).

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Lee Valley Park

Lee Valley Regional Park is a long linear park, much of it green spaces, running through the northeast of Greater London, Essex and Hertfordshire from the River Thames to Ware, through areas such as Stratford, Clapton, Tottenham, Enfield, Walthamstow, Cheshunt, Broxbourne and Hoddesdon in an area generally known as the Lea Valley.

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Lee Valley Reservoir Chain

The Lee Valley Reservoir Chain is located in the Lee Valley, and comprises 13 reservoirs that supply drinking water to London.

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Lesney Products

Lesney Products & Co.

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Leyton

Leyton is a district of east London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, located north-east of Charing Cross in the United Kingdom.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lower Clapton

Lower Clapton is a district of East London in the London Borough of Hackney, lying immediately north of Hackney Central, the borough's administrative and retail centre.

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Lower Lea Valley

The Lower Lea Valley is the southern end of the Lea Valley which surrounds the River Lea.

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Luton

Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, England, Luton east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.

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Market garden

A market garden is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants.

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Markfield Beam Engine and Museum

Markfield Road Pumping Station, now known as Markfield Beam Engine and Museum or sometimes just as Markfield Beam Engine is a Grade II listed building containing a beam engine, originally built in 1886 to pump sewage from Tottenham towards the Beckton Works.

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Matchbox (brand)

Matchbox is a popular toy brand which was introduced by Lesney Products in 1953, and is now owned by Mattel, Inc.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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MK Electric

MK Electric is a company that makes electrical accessories.

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Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill is a suburban and low-rise urban district of the north, outer London Boroughs of Haringey and – a small part only – Barnet.

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Nazeing

Nazeing is a village and parish in Essex, England.

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New River (England)

The New River is an artificial waterway in England, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water taken from the River Lea and from Chadwell Springs and Amwell Springs (which ceased to flow by the end of the nineteenth century), and other springs and wells along its course.

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North Circular Road

The North Circular Road (officially the A406 and sometimes known as simply the North Circular or "North Circ". Two sections at its eastern end are designated A1020 and A117) is a ring road around Central London in England.

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Old Ford

Old Ford is an area of the East End in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Orchard House Yard

Orchard House Yard (known as Orchard Yard and Hercules Wharf) was an English shipbuilding yard located at Leamouth, on the River Lea at Bow Creek.

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Owen Williams (engineer)

Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was a British engineer and architect, known for being the principal engineer for Gravelly Hill Interchange (known popularly as Spaghetti Junction) as well as a number of key modernist buildings, including the Express Building in Manchester and Boots D10 Building in Nottingham.

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Pan Britannica Industries

Pan Britannica Industries Ltd (PBI) was a small company which had 400 employees.

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Plant nursery

A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size.

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Ponders End

Ponders End is a mid-sized commercial and large residential district of the London Borough of Enfield, north London adjoining to its east the Lee Navigation in the mid-Lea Valley.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.

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Ribbon development

Ribbon development is building houses along the routes of communications radiating from a human settlement.

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River Lea

The River Lea in England originates in Leagrave, Luton in the Chiltern Hills and flows generally southeast, east, and then south through east London where it meets the River Thames, the last looping section being known as Bow Creek.

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Roman roads in Britannia

Roman roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman Army during the nearly four centuries (43 – 410 AD) that Britannia was a province of the Roman Empire.

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Royal Small Arms Factory

The Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) was a UK government-owned rifle factory in the London Borough of Enfield in an area generally known as the Lea Valley.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Stratford Works

Stratford Works was the locomotive-building works of the Great Eastern Railway situated at Stratford, London, England.

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Stratford, London

Stratford is a town and parish in London, in the London Borough of Newham.

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Temple Mills

Temple Mills is a northerly part of Stratford, south of Leyton, located on the boundary of the London borough of Newham and Waltham Forest in east London Temple Mills was home to a marshalling yard and wagon works belonging to the Great Eastern Railway.

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Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company

The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Limited was a shipyard and iron works straddling the mouth of Bow Creek at its confluence with the River Thames, at Leamouth Wharf (often referred to as Blackwall) on the west side and at Canning Town on the east side.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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Thorn Electrical Industries

Thorn Electrical Industries Limited was an electrical engineering business.

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Three Mills

The Three Mills are former working mills on the River Lea, one of London’s oldest extant industrial centres.

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Tottenham

Tottenham is a district of north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey.

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Tottenham Hale

Tottenham Hale is an area of northeast London and part of the London Borough of Haringey.

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Turnford, Hertfordshire

Turnford is a village in the Borough of Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire, England, in an area generally known as the Lee Valley.

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Visteon

Visteon Corporation (VC) is an American global automotive electronics supplier and Fortune 500 company spun off from the Ford Motor Company in 2000.

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Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills

The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage, (ERIH), set in of parkland and containing 21 buildings of major historical importance, mixes history, science, and attractive surroundings.

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Waltham Cross

Waltham Cross is a suburban town 12 miles (20 km) north north-east of central London, located within the metropolitan area of London, the Greater London Urban Area, and the Borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

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Walthamstow

Walthamstow is the largest district of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in north-east London.

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Walthamstow Marshes

Walthamstow Marshes, is a 36.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Walthamstow in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

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Ware, Hertfordshire

Ware is a town of around 18,800 people in Hertfordshire, England close to the county town of Hertford.

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West Ham

West Ham is an area of East London, located east of Charing Cross.

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West Ham Power Station

West Ham Power Station was a coal-fired power station on Bow Creek (the tidal mouth of the River Lea) at Canning Town, in east London.

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Wormley, Hertfordshire

Wormley is a village in Hertfordshire, England.

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Wright's Flour Mill

Wright's Flour Mill is located at Wharf Road Ponders End which is part of the London Borough of Enfield.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Valley

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