Shadwell Basin

Shadwell Basin is a housing and leisure complex built around a disused dock in Wapping, London. The old dock was formerly part of the London Docks and historically in Shadwell where it takes it namesake from, a group of docks named and built by the London Dock Company at Wapping and is part of the wider docks of the Port of London.

Today Shadwell Basin is one the most significant bodies of water surviving from the historical London Docks. It is situated on the north side of the river Thames east of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge and west of Limehouse.