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Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Mile End |
 | | It reminded passers-by, of the turnpike road, the rattling four-horse coach, the chaise with its postillion, the steady moving team with lumbering wain, and all those things which made up the variety of road transport in the early nineteenth century. |
 | | Here travellers 'on the outset of their journey or in coming near to their destination saw Mile End, and thereabouts the houses of the well-to-do, which for the greater part were to the south of the highway towards Stepney Church. |
 | | When, in the course of time, the adjoining hamlet of Ratcliff made its boundary and certain parishes were separated from the mother church, a large area, most of which consisted of fields, was left over, and recognised as being in the care and keeping of the hamlet of Mile End Old Town. |
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