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Temple Mills

Categories: Commerce, Transport

A district on the boundaries of Newham and Waltham Forest. The name derives from the water mills which straddled the River Lea.

Medieval Hackney was largely rural and crops were grown that needed milling. Temple Mills were water mills belonging to the Knights Templar.  In the 17th and 18th centuries the mills were used for various industrial purposes including the production of gunpowder. 

In 1896 the Great Eastern Railway opened a wagon works which lasted until 1983. Since 2007 it has been the Eurostar Engineering Centre, the railway depot for Eurostar.

This map is from the 2022 'Leyton Mills Development Framework'. The Eurostar depot is show top left. The location of the plaque is about the middle of the right hand edge. Quite where the mills were is unknown but the River Lea does run very close to the Eurostar depot.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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