Canary Wharf commuters and their families love Bow as its where vibrant tradition meets the new face of the East End .

There are now two strings to east London’s Bow, the old Bow which is full of charming conservation areas with old traditional squares and streets of Georgian and Victorian houses, and the new Bow along the River Lea where years of industrial history are being swept away and replaced with brand-new riverside homes.

The Georgian houses in Tredegar Square and the smaller Victorian houses in and around Chisenhale Road have long appealed to couples and families who love period detail, while new homes offering the Help to Buy scheme is attracting young professionals to the area.

Bow renters tend to be young professionals, families, sharers and also students who attend Queen Mary University of London, which has a large campus located on Mile End Road.

Bow’s main shopping street is along Roman Road, where the famous market has been running for 150 years.

Roman Road also has a wine merchant and wine bar. Further west along the street there is a greater concentration of independent shops as well as having a couple of vintage clothing stores.

Open space

Victoria Park is one of London’s most popular parks and has a café, boating and fishing lakes, rose garden, bowling green, tennis court, children’s water play feature and playground and a bandstand.

Mile End Park is a linear park which runs alongside Regent’s Canal from Victoria Park in the north to Limehouse Basin in the south, with a green pedestrian bridge over Mile End Road.

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a woodland cemetery and one of the magnificent seven cemeteries built by the Victorians.

Grove Hall Park is located off Fairfield Road is within close proximity to Bow Church.

Schools

Primary schools include Chisenhale Primary, Olga Primary School, Old Ford Primary, St Agnes RC and St Paul’s Way Trust School.

Comprehensive schools include Morpeth, Central Foundation Girls, Stepney Green Maths, Computing and Science College Bow School and East London Science School.

Travel

Stations within close proximity include Bromley-by-Bow station, Bow Road station, Mile End station and Bow Church station. All the Tube stations are on the Hammersmith & City and District lines and Mile End is also on the Central line. Bow Church and Devons Road are on the DLR offering easy access into Canary Wharf.

Postcode

Bow falls under the E3 postcode and the local borough is Tower Hamlets.