Cubitt Town

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Location
Cubitt Town

OS grid reference:	TQ385795


Administration
London borough:	Tower Hamlets
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Middlesex
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postal district:	E14
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:
London Assembly:	City and East
European Parliament:	London
London \| List of places in London

Cubitt Town is an area on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets in London, 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 1860-1861, 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. Cubitt also created many local businesses employing manual labourers as well as the streets of housing to accommodate them.

It is served by the Docklands Light Railway stations Crossharbour and London Arena, Mudchute and Island Gardens .

Estates in the area include:

New Union Wharf Estate - East Thames Housing
Samuda Estate - London Borough of Tower Hamlets
St Johns Estate - London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Amsterdam Road - Private
Millennium Wharf - Private

The area is a curious mix of old East London working-class communities transplanted into '60s and '70s high-rise estates and the middle-class (in lifestyle if not in cultural or professional senses) workers in the Canary Wharf complex attracted by relatively low prices for riverside living, plus less recent Bangladeshi and East Asian immigrant populations.