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The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London created in 1900. In 1965 it became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . Formation and boundaries.
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 ...
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.
Stepney: Settlement and Building to c.1700. A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11, Stepney, Bethnal Green. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1998. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved.
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.
Stepney is a district of London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The modern district grew out of a medieval village around St Dunstan's church and the 15th century Mile End Road. The area built up rapidly in the 19th century. It was mainly for immigrant workers and displaced poor people.
Stepney was an ancient civil and ecclesiastical parish in the historic county of Middlesex to the east and north east of the City of London, England. [2] [3] Origins. The parish had Anglo-Saxon origins as the vill of Stepney, a larger area including Hackney and Bromley-by-Bow.
