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  Stepney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Stepney is served by Stepney Green tube station which takes its name from the open space Stepney Green.
Stepney is the name of a steam locomotive on the Bluebell Railway, which has also featured as a character of the same name in The Railway Series by Rev.
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 CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-GREATER LONDON
The London Borough of Barnet was formed by the amalgamation of the Borough of Finchley, the Borough of Hendon, the Barnet Urban District, the East Barnet Urban District and the Friern Barnet Urban District.
The white horse, from the crest of the Borough of Bexley and the arms of the Crayford UDC, is derived from the arms of Kent County Council.
The London Borough of Hillingdon was formed by the amalgamation of the Borough of Uxbridge, the Hayes and Harlington Urban District, the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District and the Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District.
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 STEPNEY - LoveToKnow Article on STEPNEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(1663-1707), English poet and diplomatist, son of George Stepney, groom of the chamber to Charles II., was born at Westminster in 1663.
STEPNEY, an eastern metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded N. by Bethnal Green, E. by Poplar, S. by the river Thames, and W. by the City of London and Shoreditch.
Stepney is a suifragan bishopric in the diocese of London.
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The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger of the Middlesex borough of Twickenham with the Surrey boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and Barnes.
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger of the Kent boroughs of Bexley, and Erith and the Crayford urban district, and half of Chislehurst and Sidcup urban district.
Havering is bordered to the south by the Thames and the London Borough of Bexley, to the west by the London Borough of Redbridge and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, to the north with Essex and the east with Thurrock.
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 Metropolitan Borough of Stepney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was between 1899 and 1965 a metropolitan borough in the County of London.
It became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The road sign in front of Mile End Underground Station still has Borough of Stepney just visible on it.
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 London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London.
The Borough itself was formed in 1965 out of the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney which formed the classic East End.
With 36,4 the borough is the local authority with the highest percentage of Muslims in Britain.
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When the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was formed in 1900, its population alone was in the region of 300,000.
In further consideration for James & William Spurgeon being brothers is the fact of the proximity of the two parishes of Stepney and Whitechapel and it should be noted that St. Mary's Matfellon was considered a 'chapel of ease' to Stepney parish.
Described as the tallest structure east of the Tower of London it carries a Saxon cross from the 800s.Part of the parish was taken to form the parish of St Marys Stratford at Bow.
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 London Borough of Tower Hamlets Online Research :: Information about London Borough of Tower Hamlets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London, England.
The Borough itself was formed in 1965 out of the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Metropolitan Borough of Poplar and Metropolitan Borough of Stepney which formed the classic East End of London.
With 36.4%, the borough is the local authority with the highest percentage of Islam in the United Kingdom.
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 HyperWar: Problems of Social Policy [Chapter XIV]
The loudest cry came from Silvertown, lying in the south-west of the county borough of West Ham, and hemmed in by the River Lea, the Thames and the docks.
The functions of the metropolitan boroughs, now solely responsible for rehousing, were defined as four; billeting, requisitioning, the salvage and supply of furniture, and 'welfare'.
Some London boroughs had over seventy-five percent of their houses damaged, and in one or two the number of 'damages' to houses was twice the number of houses.
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 County_of_London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The county was abolished in 1965 and was replaced by the much larger Greater London, which took in nearly all of Middlesex, along with much of Surrey, Kent, Essex and part of Hertfordshire.
Eleven years after its foundation, in 1899, the County of London was divided into metropolitan boroughs, which replaced the ancient parishes and vestries as the second tier of local government.
When the County of London was abolished in 1965 these metropolition boroughs were merged to form 12 London boroughs.
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 H-Net Review: Vanessa Harding on A History of the County of Middlesex
Stepney is a work-in-progress, as far as the VCH is concerned, and the current format is not designed to allow an overview of the whole project.
The parish vestry and the guardians that ruled Bethnal Green in the nineteenth century (it became a metropolitan borough in 1900) were at best lax and self-interested, resisting the appointment of medical officers of health who might produce troublesome reports.
Stepney was always a home for nonconformity, with high rates of prosecution in the later seventeenth century.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Poplar in the Past
In the fourteenth century this obligation of preserving the marshes was committed to the care of the newly-founded monastery of St. Mary Graces by the Tower of London.
He was one of the representatives of Poplar on the Stepney Vestry, and was churchwarden in 1639, the year in which he died.
In 1597 Lord Wentworth, who then held the Manor of Stepney, granted the lease for five hundred years of a parcel of land whereon the Company, whose charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1600, established their yard.
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 BETHNAL GREEN - LoveToKnow Article on BETHNAL GREEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Close by the park there stood, until the i9th century, a house believed to have belonged to the notorious Bishop Bonner, the persecutor of Protestants in the reign of Mary; his name is still attached to a street here.
Among institutions are the missionary settlement of the Oxford House, founded in 1884, with its womens branch, St Margarets House; the NorthEastern hospital for children, the Craft school ~nd the Leather Trade school.
The parliamentary borough of,Bethnal Green has two divisions, each returning one member, The borough council consists of a mayor, 5 aldermen and 30 councillors.
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 GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: London's East End - Poplar Rate Strike, 1921
Precepts were not based on the Borough's ability to pay; in effect Poplar was paying towards the costs of rich boroughs for certain common services, but not receiving similar pooling to help poor relief.
The London County Council and the Metropolitan Asylum Board applied to the Court for the Councillors to be declared in contempt of the mandamus.
The banner at the front of the march declared that ÔPoplar Borough Councillors are still determined to go to prison to secure equalisation of rates for the poor Boroughs'.
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 Contents of Published Volumes
These two parishes lay in the Holborn division of Ossulstone hundred, and before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington, with a total population of over 200,000.
Stepney, whose name commemorates an Anglo-Saxon landing place, stretched eastward along the Thames, from the Tower of London to the River Lea.
This volume covers the early history of Stepney, with accounts of the growth of Stepney's various settlements in the medieval period and up to the 16th century, the history of the manor of Stepney and other estates, the parish church of St. Dunstan and religious life, and charities serving the whole of the ancient parish.
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 EoLFHS Parishes: Stepney
The parish was part of the Stepney Registration District until October 1, 1857 and then became part of the newly-formed Mile End Old Town Registration District.
In 1900 it became part of the Borough of Stepney and, since 1965, has been part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The church is usually locked but there are various activities going on during the week and the kindly caretakers will let you look around at those times, otherwise contact the vicar for access.
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 Articles - Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich was a metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1899 and 1965.
It was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich to form the London Borough of Greenwich.
It bordered the boroughs of Woolwich, Deptford, Lewisham.
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 GENUKI: Middlesex, Stepney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"STEPNEY, a parish and populous district of the metropolis, in the Tower division of Ossulstone hundred, and borough of the Tower Hamlets, county Middlesex, 25 miles E. of St. Paul's Cathedral.
The New Town covers about a quarter of a mile square to the N. of the Whitechapel-road, and is bounded by the parishes of Bethnal Green and Spitalfields, while the Old Town is 2 miles in length by half a mile broad, and lies between the Commercial-road and the Great Eastern railway.
Its present name appears to be a corruption of Redcliff, an appellation derived from the red cliff, or bank, of the river Thames, which flows southward of the parish.
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 SPITALFIELDS - LoveToKnow Article on SPITALFIELDS
, a district of London, England, in the western part of the metropolitan borough of Stepney.
The name is derived from the fact that the land belonged to a priory of St Mary Spital, founded in 1197.
To properly cite this SPITALFIELDS article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - LONDON:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Jews of London had remained concentered in the Whitechapel district with the classic "Petticoat lane" as a nucleus; but as wealth increased among the Ashkenazic Jews a steady western exodus took place, so that it was necessary as early as 1855 to establish, under the ministry of the Rev. A.
At the suggestion of Chief Rabbi N. Adler, the three city synagogues—the Great, the Hambro', and the New—with their western branches at Portland street and Bayswater agreed to a scheme (April 19, 1868), which was submitted to the Charity Commissioners of England and embodied by them in an Act of Parliament.
On the other hand, the assistance needed and given is often very slight, and the proportion of those who remain chronically connected with the charitable institutions is fairly small, probably not more than 5 per cent of the whole Jewish population.
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 Stepney Churches
Stepney is the original parent parish of all, and the first-named in each group, parent parish to those within it.
Stepney's history, with its proximity to the City, is especially convoluted.
Stepney, Christ Church, Jamaica Street [1877] 1951 Parish divided between Stepney S.Augustine w.S.Philip and Stepney St.Dunstan and All Saints w.
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 ipedia.com: London County Council Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The creation of the LCC was forced by a succession of scandals involving the Metropolitan Board of Works, its predecessor, which had not been directly elected.
The LCC initially used the Spring Gardens headquarters of the Metropolitan Board of Works but by 1906 decided to buy up three adjacent plots of land on the eastern side of Westminster Bridge for use as a single headquarters.
Along with the expansion of Greater London, these metropolition boroughs were merged to form 12 London boroughs, which were termed Inner London.
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 Welcome Page
On the North shore of the Thames and a little East of London, The Church of St. Anne, Limehouse was in the Parish of Stepney.
Poplar was a parish in the Eastern Metropolitan borough of London.
Blackwall, the birthplace of Margaret Young is in the southeast of the borough.
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 The New Criminologist - Jack the Ripper (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
So, Jack the Ripper is, therefore, probably the best-known, yet anonymous serial murderer of the last one hundred years and here we might pause for a moment to reflect on this man and his crimes for he is the archetypal serial killer whose antisocial behaviour sets the scene for all that is to follow.
The few square miles of East London, notably the Borough of Stepney, in that era of Victorian human blight, was a sprawling slum inhabitated by about 900,00 people, all of whom were virtual outcasts living in conditions of extreme depravity and filth.
The Metropolitan Police estimated that in October 1888, about 1,200 of the lowest sort of prostitutes plied their trade in the dingy Whitechapel streets and, as a consequence, women were assaulted and injured every night.
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 The Metropolitan Asylums Board
In 1868, as a separate strand to the implementation of the Metropolitan Poor Act, the Poor Law Board formed six new 'Sick Asylum Districts' which were to erect joint 'asylums' or hospitals for dealing with the general sick poor.
Accommodation for around 400 cases was provided in two more establishments acquired from the South Metropolitan School District — Bridge School (the former Witham Union workhouse) which opened in February, 1901, and the Downs School at Sutton, which opened in February, 1903.
The temporary buildings of the Orchard Hospital at Dartford, erected in 1902, were lent to the War Office from 1915 to 1919 for the use of overseas troops, mainly Australians.
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 Books Online : UK
A History of the County of Essex: Volume IX - The Borough of Colchester - The volume, the first full-scale, comprehensive and scholarly history of the ancient borough of Colchester to be published, describes the life of the oldest and for long the largest town in Essex from the Iron Age to 1990.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume X - Hackney - Hackney was the largest parish transferred to the administrative county of London in 1889, and became a metropolitan borough with over 220,000 inhabitants, before giving its name to a Greater London borough in 1965.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume XI - Stepney, Bethnal Green - The ancient parish of Stepney covered most of the area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the middle ages, but was gradually reduced in area.
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 POPLAR - Online Information article about POPLAR
BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
The metropolitan borough of Poplar includes the Bow and Bromley and the Poplar divisions of the See also:
The borough council consists of a See also:
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 Contents: Subjects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Borough of Stepney See Stepney (Metropolitan Borough of)
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar See Poplar (Metropolitan Borough of)
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney See Stepney (Metropolitan Borough of)
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 SCHEDULE 1.2 - Third Party Contracts
Licence relating to the reconstruction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel Southern Approach Bridge EL27A at Rotherhithe Station in the London Borough of Southwark made 26 July 1995 between London Underground Ltd and the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Southwark and the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets;
London Underground Ltd and the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Southwark and the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Under the Licence relating to the reconstruction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel Southern Approach Bridge EL27A at Rotherhithe Station in the London Borough of Southwark dated 26 July 1995 between London Underground Ltd and the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Southwark and the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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