The neighbourhood consists of two small peninsulas,[2] separated from the rest of Poplar by the remaining part of the East India Docks.

The northern peninsula lies in a hairpin meander and is named Goodluck Hope after one of the adjacent reaches of the Lea, while the other is known as Orchard Place.

The civil parish of Poplar had a vestry committee which organised services such as poor relief and road maintenance.

[7] The Thames Plate Glass Works was a major employer until its closure 1874; many of the hands – who had migrated to the area from Tyneside and St Helens in the 1840s – followed the glassworks to New Albany, Indiana.

provide 1,706 homes, stores, shops, restaurants, cafés, and arts facilities including the English National Ballet.

[citation needed] The Leamouth Peninsula has historically had poor transport links compared to the rest of Poplar, today it is connected to it by a main road splitting its halves: the A1020 Lower Lea Crossing which is a local by-pass of the A13.

Leamouth has been served by the London Buses network for the first time by the D3 to Bethnal Green which starts and ends on Orchard Place since 2017.