What is "shadwell"

Shadwell is a district in East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and located on the north bank of the Thames between Wapping and Ratcliff. It is located east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London.

Shadwell can refer to:

• Shadwell, a district in London, England
  • Shadwell tube station, a station on the London Underground
• Shadwell, Gloucestershire, a hamlet of Uley, England
• Shadwell, West Yorkshire, a village in north east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
• Shadwell (Virginia), a plantation in Virginia, USA
• USS Shadwell (LSD-15), United States Ship
• Thomas Shadwell, a 17th-century British playwright
• P. Shadwell, an Indian cricketer in the 1940s
• Siadwel the Welsh poet (pronounced "Shadwell"), a character from the 1980s BBC sketch show Naked Video

Shadwell can be an alternative spelling of Chadwell. Places named Chadwell include:

• Chadwell, Leicestershire
• Chadwell, Shropshire
• Chadwell Heath in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
• Chadwell Springs in Hertfordshire - one of the sources of the New River (England)
• Chadwell St Mary in Thurrock

Shadwell, a census-designated place by the Rivanna River in Albemarle County, Virginia near Charlottesville, was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson. It was so named after Shadwell parish in London by his father, Peter Jefferson, a colonist and planter in central Virginia. Shadwell is the parish where his wife Jane Randolph had been christened. Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph had six children, among them Thomas, who would become the third president of the United States. Active in county meetings Peter was appointed Justice of the Peace of Albemarle county, taking his oath in September 1744. The following month he was appointed lieutenant colonel to the Albemarle county militia.