In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Silvertown like this:
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.
Silvertown through time
Silvertown is now part of Newham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Newham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Silvertown itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Silvertown, in Newham and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20450
Date accessed: 10th October 2024
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