Cambridge Heath is a district in East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The earliest recorded use of the name is as Camprichthesheth in 1275.
It forms part of the East End of London and is located north of Bethnal Green. The area is the location, at Patriot Square, of the former Bethnal Green Town Hall. Cambridge Heath formed part of this metropolitan borough from 1900 to 1965.
Cambridge Heath Road runs north-south from the borough boundary with the London Borough of Hackney to Stepney. It passes Cambridge Heath railway station and Bethnal Green tube station.
The nearest London Underground station is Bethnal Green on the Central Line.
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Famous quotes containing the words cambridge and/or heath:
“For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
—Edward Heath (b. 1916)