West India Docks | |
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![]() An 1802 painting of the completed docks. The canal to the left of the painting was later closed and became a third dock. The view is looking west towards the City of London. | |
Location | London |
Coordinates | 51°30′12″N 0°01′02″W / 51.50347°N 0.01722°W |
Built | 1802 |
Built for | West India Dock Company |
Architect | Robert Milligan |
The West India Docks are a series of three docks, quaysides, and warehouses built to import goods from, and export goods and occasionally passengers to the British West Indies. Located on the Isle of Dogs in London, the first dock opened in 1802. Following their commercial closure in 1980, the Canary Wharf development was built around the wet docks by narrowing some of their broadest tracts.[1]