Stepney, Tower Hamlets

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Stepney is a settlement in Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Stepney within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Stepney in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Stepney.-- par. and ry. sta. (on Great Eastern Ry.), Middlesex, in E. of London and in parl. bor. of Tower Hamlets, 832 ac., pop. 132,393; comprises the townships of Mile End New Town, Mile End Old Town, and Ratcliff; prior to 1669 it also included Limehouse, Shadwell, St George in the East, Spitalfields, Bethual Green, Bow, and Poplar.

Stepney in the Domesday Book

A village in Ossulstone hundred, in the county of Middlesex.

13 manors recorded in Domesday.

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