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:''This entry concerns the area London known as Blackwall. For the type of merchant sailing ship first built there and named after it, see'' Blackwall Frigate
'Blackwall' is an area of the East End of London, situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the north bank of the Thames River. It is perhaps most well-known for having given its name to the Blackwall Tunnel, which passes south under the adjacent River Thames to north Greenwich.
There was a railway from Minories to Blackwall via Stepney (called the London and Blackwall Railway). It ran a distance of three and half miles.
Much of the current DLR track around Limehouse and Blackwall is on the old viaducts. This was authorised in 1836 as "The Commercial Railway", running close to Commercial Road in the East End.
It has been the home of such noted seamen as Horatio Nelson and Walter Raleigh. In 1606 it was the departure point of the colonization of North America launched by the London Virginia Company. It was also the site of one of the largest shipbuilding yards on the Thames, which operated from the early seventeenth century until the late twentieth century. Its best known operators were members of the Perry, Green and Wigram families.
Blackwall is also the location of a fictitious fire-station featured in the London Weekend Television series ''London's Burning''.
Contrary to expectations, the River Thames landmark named 'Blackwall Point' is not located in Blackwall district but on the northern tip of Greenwich Peninsula, which is south of the Thames. It is so named after the 'Blackwall Reach' of the Thames

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:''For details of education in see the Tower Hamlets article''