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English
Etymology
Silver + town, after S. W. Silver and Co, a company that established a rubber works there in 1852.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Silvertown
- An industrial district, south of West Ham in the borough of Newham, Greater London, on the north bank of the Thames (OS grid ref TQ4180).
1946 May and June, J. G. Holmes, “The North Woolwich Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 174:In 1852, Silver and Company established a factory adjacent to the line, and prospered to such an extent that the locality became known as Silvertown.