Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End [2] ... Mile End Old Town ...
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]
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 ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
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)