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A map showing the Mile End Old Town wards of Stepney Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. Mile End formed a hamlet within the large ancient parish of Stepney , in the Tower division of the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex .
From 1819 the rump of Stepney consisted of three hamlets; Mile End New Town (which was detached from the rest), Ratcliffe and Mile End Old Town (which included St Dunstan's church). This residual parish was 830 acres (340 ha) in extent. [27] A map showing the 1870 boundaries of parishes which had been split from Stepney (excluding Hackney)
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.
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 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]
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 ...
Mile End New Town: 1866 Hamlet adjacent to Spitalfields and Whitechapel. Was detached from the remainder of the parish of Stepney in 1743 by the separation of Bethnal Green. Mile End Old Town: The Mile End area formed the centre of the parish of Stepney, and included St Dunstan's Church. Ratcliff
Lost area before 1866; remainder divided into Ratcliff, Mile End Old, Mile End New 1866. 1927 1965 Merger of Whitechapel, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town and St George in the East Stoke Newington [L] Ancient 1965 Sunbury: Ancient 1974 Moved to Surrey 1965. Teddington: C13th 1937 [17] Formerly medieval chapelry to Staines. Tottenham: Ancient 1965