Limehouse Cut
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The Limehouse Cut is a largely straight, broad canal in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London which links the lower reaches of the Lee Navigation to the River Thames. Opening on 17 Septem
Looking North East along the Limehouse Cut
Limehouse Cut in 1809 — apparently being widened. In the background is St Anne's Church and the recently built Commercial Road.
River Thames or Limehouse end, including the basin and its island (arrow)
The Marquess of Salisbury, chief promoter of the scheme
Limehouse Basin
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Limehouse Basin is a body of water two miles east of London Bridge that is also a navigable link between the River Thames and two of London's canals. First dug in 1820 as the eastern terminus of the n
Limehouse Cut
…a diverse social and industrial history. Formerly discharging directly into the Thames, since 1968 it has done so indirectly by a connection through Limehouse Basin. The Cut is about 1.4 miles (2.2 km) long. It turns in a broad curve from Bow Locks, where the Lee Navigation meets Bow Creek; it then proceeds directly…
Limehouse Basin, Canary Wharf in background, October 2015
Collier congestion. (Edward William Cooke, The Thames near Limehouse, called the Lower Pool, British Museum)
Ceremonial opening,The Times, 2 August 1820
Limehouse Basin 1827 with shipping and barges; notice the sloping banks