Cambridge Heath

infobox UK place
country = England
map_type = Greater London
region= London
population=
official_name= Cambridge Heath
constituency_westminster= Bethnal Green and Bow
latitude= 51.5315
longitude= -0.05566
post_town= LONDON
postcode_area=E
postcode_district=E2
london_borough= Tower Hamlets
dial_code= 020
os_grid_reference= TQ348832

Cambridge Heath is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The earliest recorded use of the name is as "Camprichthesheth" in 1275. [Mills, A., "Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names", (2000) ]

It forms part of the East End of London and is located north of Bethnal Green. The area is the location, at Patriot Square, of the former Bethnal Green Town Hall. Cambridge Heath formed part of this metropolitan borough from 1900 to 1965. [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10186353&c_id=10001043 Vision of Britain] - Bethnal Green MB boundaries]

Cambridge Heath Road runs north-south from the borough boundary with the London Borough of Hackney to Stepney. It passes Cambridge Heath railway station and Bethnal Green tube station.

Education

:"For details of education in Cambridge Heath see the List of schools in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets"

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