West India Dock Road is a road in Limehouse in London's East End. It connects Commercial Road with the entrance to the West India Docks.
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History
editRalph Walker, engineer of the West India Dock company, laid the road out in 1802. A single storey building served as a toll booth until 1871.[1]
Historic buildings on the road include the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders (opened 1857, demolished 1937) and the West India Docks railway station (opened 6 July 1840, closed 3 May 1926).
References
edit- ^ "West India Dock Road | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. British History. Retrieved 29 March 2019.