Bow Creek (London)

For Bow Creek, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States, see Bow Creek (Swatara Creek).

Bow Creek
Bow Creek (tidal) (far left) meets the Limehouse Cut (canal, right), at Bow Locks on the Lee Navigation (centre); with a view of London's Docklands
Map
Location
CountryEngland
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationConfluence of Prescott Channel and Channelsea River at Bow Locks
Mouth 
 • location
River Thames, Leamouth
Length2.25 mi (3.62 km)
Map c1872, showing Victoria Docks, now Royal Victoria Dock, Bow Creek and the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Bow Creek flooding at high tide

Bow Creek is a 2.25-mile (3.6 km) long tidal estuary of the English River Lea and is part of the Bow Back Rivers. Below Bow Locks the creek forms the boundary between the London Boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets, in East London.

Bow Creek at high tide with a view towards Balfron Tower and Canary Wharf