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Plaistow (/ ˈ p l ɑː s t oʊ / ⓘ PLAHST-oh or / ˈ p l æ s t oʊ / PLAST-oh) [1] [2] is a suburban area of East London, England, within the London Borough of Newham.It adjoins Upton Park to the north, East Ham to the east, Beckton to the south, Canning Town to the south-west and West Ham to the west.
Plaistow, Derbyshire, in the List of places in Derbyshire; Plaistow, Newham, east London Plaistow (UK Parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency from 1918 to 1950 within what has since become Newham; Plaistow (Newham ward), an electoral ward in Newham from 1964 until 2002; Plaistow North (ward), an electoral ward in Newham created ...
Plaistow was officially established as a town in 1749 after the 1739 resolution of a long-running boundary dispute between the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the Province of New Hampshire. [3] It is the only town outside the United Kingdom with the name Plaistow. In 1776 the western part of Plaistow became a separate town, Atkinson.
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Plaistow (/ ˈ p l ɑː s t oʊ / PLAHST-oh, / ˈ p l æ s t oʊ / PLAST-oh, or / ˈ p l eɪ s t oʊ / PLAYST-oh) [2] [3] [4] is an area of south-east London located in the London Borough of Bromley and, until 1965, in the historic county of Kent. It is located south of Downham and Grove Park and north of Sundridge Park and Bromley. Nowadays ...
The foundation stone of the church. St Martin's Church is a part of the Church of England on Boundary Road in Plaistow, Newham, East London.It was built in 1894 as a mission church, with the foundation stone laid on 28 June that year by Henrietta Pelham-Clinton (née Hope), Dowager Duchess of Newcastle and widow of the 6th Duke of Newcastle, [1] who also funded the opening of St Thomas' Roman ...
Plaistow was a borough constituency returning a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom through the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was one of four divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of West Ham, which had at the time the same boundaries as the County Borough of West Ham .
Plaistow (/ ˈ p l ɑː s t oʊ / PLAHST-oh or / ˈ p l æ s t oʊ / PLAST-oh [6] [7]) is a London Underground station on Plaistow Road in the London Borough of Newham in Greater London. It is between West Ham and Upton Park stations on the District and Hammersmith & City lines, and in Travelcard Zone 3 .