The Isle of Dogs is a a large peninsula and urban area bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England, comprising of Canary Wharf, Millwall and Cubitt Town.
The whole area was once simply known as Stepney Marsh; Anton van den Wyngaerde's "Panorama of London" dated 1543 depicts and refers to the Isle of Dogs. Records show that ships preparing to carry the English royal household to Calais in 1520 docked at the southern bank of the Island. The name Isle of Dogges occurs in the Thamesis Descriptio of 1588, applied to a small island in the south-western part of the peninsula. The name is next applied to the Isle of Dogs Fam (originally known as Pomfret Manor) shown on a map of 1683. At the same time, the area was variously known as Isle of Dogs or the Blackwell levels. By 1855, it was incorporated within the parish of Poplar under the aegis of the Poplar Board of Works. This was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar on its formation in 1900.
Transport[]
London Buses routes 135, 277, D6, D7, D8, N277 and N550 all run on the Isle of Dogs.
More information on the Wikipedia page [1]
For the brief secession of the Isle of Dogs in 1970 see [2] and [3]