English
Silvertown
From Silver + town, after S.
Proto-Germanic *silubrą ‘silver’
Proto-West Germanic *silubr ‘silver’
Old English seolfor ‘silver’
Middle English silver ‘silver’
English Silver
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Germanic *tūną ‘fence, enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *tūn ‘fence’
Old English tūn ‘an enclosed piece of ground’
Middle English toun ‘a town or city’
English town
The story
Silver and Co, a company that established a rubber works there in 1852.
Today it means
name An industrial district, south of West Ham in the borough of Newham, Greater London, on the north bank of the Thames (OS grid ref TQ4180).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Silvertown