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UK. England. London. 51°30′55″N 0°02′46″W / . 51.5152°N 0.0462°W. / 51.5152; -0.0462. 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.
Nov 13, 2016 · Dr. William Clarke, vicar of Stepney, who died in 1679, left a considerable estate in Essex for the augmentation of ten poor vicarages (fn. 120). The present rector of Stepney is Thomas Brathwaite, D. D. instituted in 1789, on the death of Richard Sandbach, M. A. Protestant dissenters.
It takes its name from the Tower of London, which was originally in Stepney Parish. There are seventeen Hamlets/Wards in the East Side, which were incorporated to create The Tower Hamlets. One of which today is St. Dunstan’s Stepney Green. The past ten years has seen the population of Tower Hamlets grow from around 161,000 to over 200,000.
EARLY STEPNEY. 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. Partly built up in the Middle Ages and great in size, it served many economic functions, with contrasting social ...
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In the 18th century most London-registered ships sailed from docks in the parish of Stepney, which then took in much of east London’s riverside. Over the course of the 19th century Stepney’s character was transformed as London expanded to absorb it. Commercial Road lived up to its name by filling with shops and other businesses.
Stepney Borough Council. • HQ. Cheviot House, 227-233 Commercial Road & Stepney Town Hall. • Motto. A Magnis Ad Maiora (From great things to greater) Coat of arms of the borough council. Map of borough boundary. The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London created in 1900.
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. Stepney Green is a remnant of a larger area of Common Land formerly ...
