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About Newham

  • Discover Newham

    Newham offers enormous potential as a place to live and work. It is a thriving area which is undergoing a remarkable transformation - rapidly emerging as a centre of commerce and culture.

  • Photo of beauty spot in Newham's North Beckton park.
  • Arts and Leisure

    The new cultural quarter in Stratford is burgeoning. The famous Theatre Royal Stratford East, once home to Joan Littlewood's innovative stage company, has now been restored to its full 1900s glory.

  • Shopping and eating

    The expression 'global village' could have been invented for Newham with its great diversity.

  • Museums and heritage

    London is home to the best museums in the world, all of them a short tube ride from Newham. But, as befits an area with ancient roots, the borough itself has a lot to offer visitors with an interest in London history.

  • Maps and travel

    Three miles from the City of London, in the heart of the East End, the London Borough of Newham sits just north of the River Thames. Overlooking the Millennium Dome and Greenwich, Newham has the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham as its neighbours.

  • History

    Newham's key location as the gateway to London has shaped its past and will influence its future.

  • Webcam

    Our Webcam shows live pictures from the main site of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

  • The Newham Mag

    The Newham Magazine is published fortnightly and delivered to every home in the borough.

  • Newham Information Management System (NIMS)

    The Newham Neighbourhood Information Management System (NIMS) is an online central data repository that enables local strategic partners (LSP) to share data.

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