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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 ...
Mile End is an inner western suburb of Adelaide, located in the City of West Torrens, around 2 kilometres from the Adelaide city centre. It has a census area population of 4,413 people (2011). It has a census area population of 4,413 people (2011).
Much of the former northern boundary of the parish was with Mile End Old Town and ran alongside Commercial Road. In the west the boundary with Whitechapel fell just short of Back Church Lane. The parish of Wapping bordered it to the south, with Wapping forming a buffer in the west and south, beyond which are for example St Botolph Without ...
The Tower Division was a liberty in the ancient county of Middlesex, England.It was also known as the Tower Hamlets, and took its name from the military obligations owed to the Constable of the Tower of London.
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.
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
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)