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SILVERTOWN, a village in West Ham parish, Essex; adjacent to the London and North Woolwich railway, near the Victoria docks. It has a r. station, an india-rubber cloth factory, and a church in the decorated English style, built in 1862, at a cost of £7,000.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | West Ham AP/CP Essex AncC |
Place: | Silvertown |
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