Bow Creek (London)
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Bow Creek is a 2.25-mile long tidal estuary of the English River Lea and is part of the Bow Back Rivers. Below Bow Locks the creek forms the boundary between the London Boroughs of Newham and Tower Ha
Bow Creek (tidal) (far left) meets the Limehouse Cut (canal, right), at Bow Locks on the Lee Navigation (centre); with a view of Canary Wharf
Bow Creek flooding at high tide
Bow Creek at high tide with a view towards Balfron Tower and Canary Wharf
Bow Back Rivers
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Bow Back Rivers or Stratford Back Rivers is a complex of waterways between Bow and Stratford in east London, England, which connect the River Lea to the River Thames. Starting in the twelfth century,
Bow Creek (London)
…Bow Creek is a 2.25-mile (3.6 km) long tidal estuary of the English River Lea and is part of the Bow Back Rivers. Below Bow Locks the creek forms the boundary between the London Boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets, in East London. The River Lea rises in the town…
The sluices at Three Mills Lock, with the lock structure to the right
City Mill River, Bow Back Rivers (2004)
Steps going down to the tow path, used in the past by horses
The Olympic Stadium under construction among the Bow Back Rivers. (Waterworks River and City Mill River at left, Lea Navigation at bottom right, Three Mills Wall River and Prescott Channel at top left.)