Bow Road

Bow Road is a thoroughfare in

Bow, London Bow () is an area of East London within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is primarily a built-up and mostly residential area and is east of Charing Cross. It was in the traditional county of Middlesex but became part of the County of ...

, England. The road forms part of the A11, running from

Aldgate Aldgate () was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. It gives its name to Aldgate High Street, the first stretch of the A11 road, which included the site of the former gate. The area of Aldgate, the most common use of ...

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

. To the west the road becomes Mile End Road, and to the east is Bow Interchange on the A12. The College of Technology London was located on the road, as is Bow Church, and the

Lea Valley Walk The Lea Valley Walk is a long-distance path located between Leagrave, the source of the River Lea near Luton, and the Thames, at Limehouse Basin, Limehouse, east London. From its source much of the walk is rural. At Hertford the path follows t ...

passes it near to

Three Mills The Three Mills are former working mills and an island of the same name on the River Lea. It is one of London’s oldest extant industrial centres. The mills lie in the London Borough of Newham, but despite lying on the Newham side of the Lea, ac ...

. The Electric House carries a memorial clock to

Minnie Lansbury Minnie Lansbury née Minnie Glassman (1889 – 1 January 1922) was an English leading suffragette and an alderman on the first Labour-led council in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, England. Biography Minnie was the daughter of Annie and I ...

, whose father in law

George Lansbury George Lansbury (22 February 1859 – 7 May 1940) was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour government of 1929–31, he spent ...

also lived on Bow Road Bow Road Underground station and

Bow Church DLR station Bow Church is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Bow, London, England. It is between Devons Road and Pudding Mill Lane stations. It is interlinked by an out of station interchange (OSI) within walking distance via Bow Road with Bow ...

are located on the road, and two further stations, both now closed, were also once situated in Bow Road:

Bow railway station Bow was a railway station in Bow, east London, that was opened in 1850 by the East & West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway, which was later renamed the North London Railway (NLR). The station was situated between Old Ford and South ...

and

Bow Road railway station Bow Road is a closed railway station in Bow, East London, that was opened in 1876 on the Bow Curve branch line by the Great Eastern Railway (GER). The station building was situated slightly west of a former North London Railway (NLR) station ...

. Since 2011, Cycle Superhighway 2 has run from Stratford to Aldgate along Bow Road.

London Buses route 8 London Buses route 8 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between Bow Church and Tottenham Court Road station, it is operated by Stagecoach London. History On 2 November 1908, the bus route number 8 wa ...

and 25 make use of Bow Road as do routes 425 and 205 Bow Road, London is home to the

Thames Magistrates Court The Thames Magistrates' Court is a magistrates' court in Bow, London, England. It is located near the Bow Road tube station Bow Road is a London Underground station located on Bow Road in Bow, London, England. It is on the District and Ha ...

near Bow Road Underground station, as well as a number of new commercial occupiers contributing to the regeneration of East London. Streets in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Bow, London {{London-road-stub