West India Docks

West India Docks
West India Docks
	An 1802 painting of the completed docks. The canal to the left of the painting was later closed and became a third dock. The view is looking west towards the City of London.
Location	London
Coordinates	51°30′12″N 0°01′02″W / 51.50347°N 0.01722°W
Built	1802
Built for	West India Dock Company
Architect	Robert Milligan
	Location of West India Docks in London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The West India Docks are a series of three docks, quaysides, and warehouses built to import goods from, and export goods and occasionally passengers to the British West Indies. Located on the Isle of Dogs in London, the first dock opened in 1802. Following their commercial closure in 1980, the Canary Wharf development was built around the wet docks by narrowing some of their broadest tracts.^[1]

^ "History of the Port of London pre 1908". Port of London Authority. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

[histport-1] "History of the Port of London pre 1908". Port of London Authority. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

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