Back London Borough of Tower Hamlets Afrikaans حي تاور هامليتس (لندن) Arabic تاور هملتس لندن منطقهسی AZB টাওয়ার হ্যামলেট্স Bengali/Bangla Tower Hamlets Catalan Tower Hamlets CEB Tower Hamlets (londýnský obvod) Czech Tower Hamlets (Bwrdeistref Llundain) Welsh Tower Hamlets Danish London Borough of Tower Hamlets German
Tower Hamlets | |
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 Coat of arms  Council logo | |
| Motto: From Great Things to Greater | |
 Tower Hamlets shown within Greater London | |
| Coordinates: 51°31′N 0°03′W / 51.517°N 0.050°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | London |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Created | 1 April 1965 |
| Admin HQ | 160 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BJ |
| Government | |
| • Type | London borough council |
| • Body | Tower Hamlets London Borough Council |
| • London Assembly | Unmesh Desai (Labour) AM for City and East |
| • MPs | Rushanara Ali (Labour) Apsana Begum (Labour) |
| Area | |
• Total | 7.63 sq mi (19.77 km2) |
| • Rank | 290th (of 296) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 325,789 |
| • Rank | 37th (of 296) |
| • Density | 43,000/sq mi (16,000/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| Postcodes | |
| ISO 3166 code | GB-TWH |
| ONS code | 00BG |
| GSS code | E09000030 |
| Police | Metropolitan Police |
| Website | www |
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The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough in London, England. Situated on the north bank of the River Thames and immediately east of the City of London, the borough spans much of the traditional East End of London and includes much of the regenerated London Docklands area. The 2019 mid-year population for the borough is estimated at 324,745.
The borough was formed in 1965 by merger of the former metropolitan boroughs of Stepney, Poplar, and Bethnal Green. 'Tower Hamlets' was originally an alternative name for the historic Tower Division; the area of south-east Middlesex, focused on (but not limited to) the area of the modern borough, which owed military service to the Tower of London. The Tower of London itself is located in the borough, adjacent to its western boundary with the City of London.
The local authority is Tower Hamlets London Borough Council. In 2017, a joint study by Trust for London and New Policy Institute found Tower Hamlets to be the 2nd most deprived London borough (after Barking and Dagenham) based on an average calculated across a range of indicators; with high rates of poverty, child poverty, unemployment and pay inequality compared to other London boroughs.[1] However, it has the lowest gap for educational outcomes at secondary level.[2]
Some of the tallest buildings in London occupy Canary Wharf, one of the country's largest financial districts, in the southeast of the borough. Between 2014 and 2024, Tower Hamlets saw the completion of 71 skyscrapers, more than any other London borough.[3] Also, part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is in the borough.
Demographically, Tower Hamlets has a large population of British Bangladeshis, forming the largest single ethnic group in the borough at 32%.[4] The 2011 census showed Tower Hamlets to have the highest proportion of Muslims of any English local authority and was the only location where Muslims outnumbered Christians.[5] The borough has more than 40 mosques, Islamic centres and madrasahs,[6] including the East London Mosque, Britain's largest.[7] Whitechapel and Brick Lane's restaurants, neighbouring street market and shops provide the largest range of Bangladeshi cuisine, woodwork, carpets and clothes in Europe.[8][9] Brick Lane is also a major centre of hipster subculture.[10][11][12]
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- ^ "London's Poverty Profile". Trust for London. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ Austin, Jon (30 October 2024). "The UK city dubbed 'another Manhattan' as 600 skyscrapers poised to go up". Daily Express. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- ^ "Borough Profile 2020". towerhamlets.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Religion in Tower Hamlets, 2011 Census Update" (PDF). towerhamlets.gov.uk. February 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Bangla Stories". banglastories.org.
- ^ Eade, John (1996). "Nationalism, Community, and the Islamisation of Space in London". In Metcalf, Barbara Daly (ed.). Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520204042. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
As one of the few mosques in Britain permitted to broadcast calls to prayer (azan), the mosque soon found itself at the centre of a public debate about "noise pollution" when local non-Muslim residents began to protest.
- ^ Garbin, David. "Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK: some observations on socio-cultural dynamics, religious trends and transnational politics" Archived 4 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Conference Human Rights and Bangladesh, School of African and Oriental Studies, June 2005, p. 1. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ Tower Hamlets Council Corporate Research Unit, Religion in Tower Hamlets 2011 Census: Key Facts (Briefing 2013-03) Archived 5 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hubbard, Phil (2016). "Hipsters on Our High Streets: Consuming the Gentrification Frontier". Sociological Research Online. 21 (3): 1. doi:10.5153/sro.3962. S2CID 53381825.
- ^ "Framing Banglatown - Arts & Entertainment".
- ^ Blunden, Mark (21 August 2018). "Tourist favour hipster East End over central London, Airbnb reveals". Evening Standard. Retrieved 11 January 2025.