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Derek Morris Mile End Old Town 1740–1780: A social history of an early modern London Suburb (East London History Society, 2007) ISBN 978-0-9506258-6-7; Alan Palmer The East End (John Murray, London 1989) Watson, Isobel (1995). "From West Heath to Stepney Green: Building development in Mile End Old Town, 1660–1820". London Topographical ...
The numerous bowling greens reflect the leisure character of the area. An "astonishing" number of houses in Mile End Town, a little to the north, were licensed to sell liquor. But, in general, the neighbourhood was a retirement village, inhabited by "rich Citizens and Sea-Captains". [70] Mile End Old Town was noted for its numerous almshouses. [71]
A map showing the civil parish boundaries in 1870. A map showing the Mile End New Town ward of Stepney Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916. Mile End New Town is a former hamlet and then civil parish in the East End of London. Its former area is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales .
The borough was formed from thirteen civil parishes and extra-parochial places: Christchurch Spitalfields, Liberty of Norton Folgate (part), Mile End New Town, Mile End Old Town, Old Artillery Ground, Ratcliff, St Anne Limehouse, St Botolph without Aldgate, St George in the East, St John of Wapping, St Mary Whitechapel, St Paul Shadwell and Tower of London.
Mile End Old Town: 57 hamlet: Mile End New Town: 22 parish: St Mary, Stratford Bow: 22 parish: Bromley St Leonard: 6 parish [n 1] All Saints, Poplar [n 1] 26 parish: St Anne, Limehouse: 26 hamlet: Ratcliff: 44 parish: St Paul, Shadwell: 71 parish: St John, Wapping: 45 parish: St George in the East: 110 liberty [n 2] East Smithfield: 45 precinct ...
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Devonshire Street was a short-lived railway station in the parish of Mile End Old Town, in the East End of London.It was opened on 20 June 1839 [1] as a temporary London terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) from Romford prior to the construction of Shoreditch station which became the permanent terminus.