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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.
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Stepney’s history properly began with the Saxons who settled near the river and gave the village its name. For many hundreds of years Stepney stood among walled orchards and cornfields flanked by fine houses. In the 16th century, its riverside hamlets became “sailor town”, crowed with ship’s workshops and lodging housed for the navy.
2 days ago · 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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Historically, Stepney was a very large manor and Ancient Parish which covered most of what would become the East End. From 1900 to 1965 the place-name was applied to the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, which in 1965 became the south-west part of the new London Borough of Tower Hamlets which currently administers the area.
2 days ago · By the 13th century the name was usually a variation of Stubanee or Stibanhe; later Stubbanheth became usual, gradually giving way to Stepney in the 16th and 17th centuries. (fn. 12) The manor was formally known as Stebunheath alias Stepney from the 18th century, and Stebunheath was the placename included in a barony created in 1906.
The Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich was a metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965. It was formed from the civil parishes of Eltham, Plumstead and Woolwich. Its former area is now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Newham. Bethnal Green was a civil parish and a metropolitan borough of the ...
Last Name. Email Address. Stepney – Profile of a London Borough from the Outbreak of the First World War to the Festival of Britain, 1914-1951 Samantha L.Bird. Cambridge Scholars Publishing There has been a centuries-old divide within London – only being rebalanced in recent times – that consigned the East End to remain to this day an ...
