Hackney Wick
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 The Lee Navigation at Hackney Wick from the Eastway bridge |
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| Hackney Wick shown within Greater London | |
| OS grid reference | TQ375845 |
| • Charing Cross | 5.6 mi (9.0 km) SW |
| London borough | |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | E9, |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| EU Parliament | London |
| UK Parliament | |
| London Assembly | |
Hackney Wick is an area of east London in the London Borough of Hackney, adjacent to the boundary with Old Ford in the district of Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is an inner-city development situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Charing Cross. West of its area, and with greater tube access, lies Hackney Central, the historic centre of Hackney Borough.
Hackney Wick is in the far east of the borough and it is at the southern tip of Hackney Marshes and includes part of 2012 Olympic Park west of the River Lea, (traditionally the boundary between Middlesex and Essex) and forms part of the Lower Lea Valley. Here it abuts the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the London Borough of Newham. West of the 'old' River Lea The Lee Navigation, here called Hackney Cut meets the Hertford Union Canal.
In Roman times the River Lea was a wide, fast flowing river, and the tidal estuary stretched as far as Hackney Wick. In 894, a force of Danes sailed up the river to Hertford; Alfred the Great saw an opportunity to defeat the Danes and ordered the lower reaches of the Lea drained, at Leamouth. This left the Danes' boats stranded, but also increased the flow of the river and caused the tidal head to move downriver to Old Ford.
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