Silvertown

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • An (industrial) district in the area, West Ham area of Newham (London borough), city, London, on the north bank of the Thames (river).

Origin

  • Silver + town, after S. W. Silver and Co, a company that established a rubber works there in 1852.

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