West Ham is an area 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 area, which lies immediately to the north of the River ♨️ Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally an ancient parish formed to serve parts of the older Manor ♨️ of Ham, and it later became a County Borough. The district, part of the historic county of Essex, was an ♨️ administrative unit, with largely consistent boundaries, from the 12th century to 1965, when it merged with neighbouring areas to become ♨️ the western part of the new London Borough of Newham. The area of the parish and borough included not just ♨️ central West Ham area, just south of Stratford; but also the sub-districts of Stratford, Canning Town, Plaistow, Custom House, Silvertown, ♨️ Forest Gate and the western parts of Upton Park, which is shared with East Ham.

The district was historically dependent on ♨️ its docks and other maritime trades, while the inland industrial concentrations led to its byname as the Factory centre of ♨️ the south of England.[2] These sources of employment have largely been lost, though there has been a degree of regeneration, ♨️ in part associated with the 2012 Olympic Games.

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