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Stepney is an area in London, England located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in East London and part of the East End. Stepney is no longer officially defined, and is usually used to refer to a relatively small area. However, for much of its history the place name applied to a much larger manor and parish.
Thousands of American and Australian families can recall their heritage to this Stepney Church, their anchor, the place where their ancestors were baptized married, died and were buried. It was from the Stepney parish that the Elizabethan adventurers set off for India and the New World.
4 days ago · The parish of Stepney lies in the hundred of Ossulston: it is situated to the east of London, and comprises nearly the whole space between the Mile-end road and the river Thames, from Whitechapel to Bow; it extends also in some places to a considerable distance on the other side of the Mile-end road.
A brief history of Stepney with two photos and a map. The only east London district to be entered in Domesday Book and once the capital of the East End, Stepney is now much reduced in extent and significance.
Dec 3, 2019 · Stepney is a district in London with an interesting history. Also known as Stepney Green, this area is a part of East London that blew up during the 19 th Century as new residents flooded to London for work.
4 days ago · STEPNEY IN THE MIDDLE AGES : FIELDS AND PLACE-NAMES. Mills, of great economic significance to Stepney and the only buildings noted in 1066, were tidal and, until the 16th or 17th centuries, isolated among the riverside marshes.
4 days ago · Stepney covered almost all the area between the suburbs of the City of London and the river Lea, the eastern boundary of Middlesex, until the early 14th century when the first of several daughter parishes was created.
