West Ham

West Ham

West Ham is a district in East London, located 6.1 mi (9.8 km) east of Charing Cross in the west of the modern London Borough of Newham. The West Ham electoral ward covers part of the central area of that borough. The area, which lies immediately to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally a manor in the county of Essex, then an ancient parish and ultimately a county borough. West Ham was an administrative unit, with largely consistent boundaries, from the 12th century to the formation of Newham in 1965.

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