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Stepney is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in East London and part of the East End. Stepney is no longer officially defined, and is usually used to refer to a relatively small area. However, for much of its history the place name applied to a much larger manor and parish.
6 days ago · Stepney-marsh. Embankments. Stepney-marsh, or the Isle of Dogs , adjoining to Poplar, is a tract of land lying within the curve which the Thames forms between Ratcliffe and Blackwall. Its extent, according to a survey taken in 1740, is 836 acres.
St. Dunstan’s Stepney was once the church for the whole of what is now the London Borough of Tower Hamlets plus part of Hackney. The enormous far-flung and heavily populated parish was said to be the “most ample” perhaps in Europe, covering, at its greatest, seven square miles.
2 days ago · Stepney covered almost all the area between the suburbs of the City of London and the river Lea, the eastern boundary of Middlesex, until the early 14th century when the first of several daughter parishes was created.
A brief history of Stepney with two photos and a map. The only east London district to be entered in Domesday Book and once the capital of the East End, Stepney is now much reduced in extent and significance.
May 29, 2024 · STEPNEY IN THE MIDDLE AGES : FIELDS AND PLACE-NAMES. Mills, of great economic significance to Stepney and the only buildings noted in 1066, were tidal and, until the 16th or 17th centuries, isolated among the riverside marshes.
Stepney is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in East London and part of the East End. Stepney is no longer officially defined, and is usually used to refer to a relatively small area.
