West Ham
Worth seeing in and around West Ham
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01London Stadium
Multi-purpose stadium at the London Olympic Park, England, United Kingdom
2.4 km · Wikipedia - 02
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- 05Millennium Dome
Original name of a large dome-shaped building in South East London, England
3.5 km · Wikipedia - 06
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- 09ArcelorMittal Orbit
Sculpture and observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London
2.2 km · Wikipedia - 10
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to West Ham
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 34 km · London Stansted (STN), 42 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 45 km
- Stations
- West Ham station, 1 km · Mile End tube station, 3.6 km · Canning Town station, 2.2 km · Upton Park tube station, 1.2 km · Bromley-by-Bow tube station, 2.2 km
- London → West Ham10 km · quickest by road, 51 min · £1.5
- London, Essex → West Ham10 km · quickest by road, 51 min · £1.5
- Luton, Luton → West Ham49 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for West Ham
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for West Ham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextPopularly known as the Garden of England due to its green landscape, the county includes a number of attractions that could be included on day trips outside of the capital.
- Go nextFrom the Greenwich Peninsula, take the IFS Cloud Cable Car (formerly Emirates Air Line) – the UK's first urban cable car.
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Next door to West Ham
West Ham is 8 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- London Borough of Tower Hamletsborough in the London Region in England3 km
- London Borough of Newhamborough in the London Region in England2.2 km
- ExCeL Londonexhibitions and international convention centre in the London Borough of Newham3 km
- Stratforddistrict of the London Borough of Newham in East London, England1.7 km
- Stratford railway stationmajor multi-level station serving the district of Stratford in the London Borough of Newham; interchange with the tube/DLR station of the same name1.6 km
- East Hamtown in the London Borough of Newham, England2.7 km