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UK. England. London. 51°30′55″N 0°02′46″W / . 51.5152°N 0.0462°W. / 51.5152; -0.0462. Stepney is an area in London, England and is 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.
2 days ago · Dr. William Clarke, vicar of Stepney, who died in 1679, left a considerable estate in Essex for the augmentation of ten poor vicarages (fn. 120). The present rector of Stepney is Thomas Brathwaite, D. D. instituted in 1789, on the death of Richard Sandbach, M. A. Protestant dissenters.
Stepney. , Tower Hamlets. Once the capital of the East End, Stepney is now reduced to a collection of flats and terraces wedged between Commercial Road and Mile End Road. This place was recorded c .1000 as Stybbanhythe (Stybba’s haven or landing place) and it was the only east London district to be entered in Domesday Book (as Stiben ...
Background of Stepney, England. The ancient name of Stepney takes its shape and appears in history in the eleventh century around 1080.The name appears under the form Stebenheth, given as Stephen’s hede (Stehpen’s landing place). Steb being Saxon and Hede or hyth being stump or timber landing.
2 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. Partly built up in the Middle Ages and great in size, it served many economic functions, with contrasting social conditions ...
Stepney church stood roughly midway between the Thames and the Colchester road by 1180, (fn. 32) and may imply a parsonage and possibly other residents nearby. Excavations in Stepney High Street opposite the church showed no trace of habitation between 700 B.C. and c. 1300, (fn. 33) but two customary cottages owing smokepennies lay on the west ...
Stepney is a district of London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . The modern district grew out of a medieval village around St Dunstan's church and the 15th century Mile End Road . The area built up rapidly in the 19th century. It was mainly for immigrant workers and displaced poor people.
