Leyton is a Town in the county of Greater London.

Retail in Leyton

There are great places to visit near Leyton including some great cities, castles, museums, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, historic monuments and airports.

The area around Leyton's best cities can be found at London.

The Tower of London is a great place to visit close to Leyton if you like castles.

There are a several good museums in the Leyton area like The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

Places near Leyton feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Thames at London.

Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre are some of Leyton best shopping centres to visit near Leyton.

Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon are some of Leyton best towns to visit near Leyton.

The area close to Leyton boasts some of the best historic monuments including Cutty Sark.

There are a several good airports in the Leyton area like London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Leyton History

There are some historic monuments around Leyton:

• London Wall: site of the Roman and medieval gateway of Cripple Gate
• Merchant Taylors' Hall
• Greenwich Hospital (RN College)
• London Wall: section bounding All Hallows Churchyard
• The Curtain Playhouse
• Apothecaries' Hall
• Medieval moated site, 408m ENE of Highland's School
• Roman governor's palace (site of)
• Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay House
• Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite including Anti-Tank Blocks on Lippitts Hill
• Romano-Celtic temple in Greenwich Park
• London Wall: section in Amen Court
• Queenhithe dock
• Greenwich Observatory
• Roman wall in basement of 90 Gracechurch Street
• Barking Abbey
• Innholders' Hall
• Abbey buildings, Bermondsey
• Roman amphitheatre, Guildhall Yard
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion (4a) at Crutched Friars
• London Wall: remains of Roman fort wall and east gate under Aldermanbury
• The Theatre Playhouse
• Huggin Hill Roman bath house, 120m WNW of St James's Church
• Tower of London
• Greenwich Palace
• West Grove, Conduit House, Blackheath
• Stationers' Hall
• The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, Southwark
• Structures of archaeological interest below Billingsgate Market
• London Wall: section of Roman wall within the London Wall underground car park, 25m north of Austral House and 55m north west of Coleman Street
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and medieval bastion in Postman's Park and King Edward Street
• Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell
• Tower Hill West
• Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital
• Romano-British bath house and medieval remains at 11-15 Borough High Street
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and conduit and medieval postern, Bloomfield House to site of Moor Gate
• Baynard's Castle, 78m south-west of St Benet Metropolitan Welsh Church
• London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway
• London Wall: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall at St Alphage Garden, incorporating remains of St Alphage's Church
• Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill
• Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's Canal
• Goldsmiths' Hall
• Queen's House
• Stratford Langthorne Abbey (part of area within precincts), Baker's Row, West Ham
• Armourers' and Brasiers' Hall
• Skinners' Hall
• Tudor naval storehouse at Convoys Wharf
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastions, west and north of Monkwell Square
• Parnell Road Bridge
• Earthworks at Old Park
• Roman Bath House, Shadwell
• London Wall: remains of Roman and medieval wall from W end of All Hallows Church to 38 Camomile Street
• Roman hypocaust and building on site of Coal Exchange
• Remains of St Pancras Church, Pancras Lane
• Watermen's Hall
• The Globe Theatre
• Dyers' Hall
• Tallow Chandlers' Hall
• Fishmongers' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Camomile Street
• London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP
• Shrewsbury Barrow, Shooters Hill
• Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Greenwich Park
• Smiths' Wharf
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastion at Noble Street
• Remains of Winchester Palace, Clink Street and waterfront
• Inner Temple Hall Buttery
• Loughton camp slight univallate hillfort
• Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood Theatre
• Linear Training Fortification, Royal Military Repository
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and bastion beneath Crosswall, No. 1 America Square and Fenchurch Street railway station
• Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's Lane
• London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Noble Street
• Painter Stainers' Hall
• Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnel
• The Hope Playhouse, and the remains of three further bear gardens, Bankside
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India Street
• The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
• Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
• Site of the launch ways of the SS Great Eastern
• London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion
• Vintners' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and Roman, medieval and post-medieval gateway at Aldersgate
• Second World War anti-aircraft gun emplacements, Beckton
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring Street
• Monument