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STEPNEY , an eastern See also:metropolitan See also:- 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. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:London, See also:England, bounded N. by Bethnal See also:Green, E. by See also:Poplar, S. by the See also:river See also:Thames, and W. by the See also:City of London and See also:Shoreditch. Pop. (1901), 298,600. It forms See also:part of the " See also:East End " of London; the See also:parish, indeed, formerly covered practically the whole See also:area so termed. Here are squalid streets and mean houses typical of the poorest class of inhabitants. The thoroughfares of Mile End Road and Whitechapel Road and that of Commercial Road East See also:traverse the borough from the east and converge near the City boundary, where stood the See also:ancient Aldgate. In the See also:north Stepney includes the districts of See also:Spitalfields, Whitechapel and Mile End; and in the See also:south Wapping, See also:Shadwell, Ratcliff and Limehouse. The See also:southern districts are occupied by sailors and labourers in the St Katherine and London Docks and the wharves and factories lining the river-See also:bank. The parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Dunstan, Stepney, is a perpendicular See also:building, much restored, containing many monuments and curious See also:inscriptions. The church of St See also:Anne, Limehouse (1730) is by See also:Nicholas See also:Hawks-See also:moor. The See also:district of Spitalfields has an old association with the See also:silk-See also:weaving See also:industry; a See also:trade in singing birds is also characteristic of this district; and in Ratcliff the well-known naturalist's See also:firm of Jamrach is situated. In the extreme See also:west the borough includes within its See also:bounds the historic See also:Tower of London, the Royal See also:Mint and the See also:fine Tower See also:Bridge over the Thames. There is no bridge below this, but the construction of the Rotherhithe See also:Tunnel was authorized in 1900. The Thames Tunnel is used by the East London railway. Among institutions the See also:principal is the See also:People's See also:Palace, Mile End Road, opened by See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 1887 as a See also:place of intellectual and See also:physical recreation and See also:education. The Drapers' See also:Company contributed largely to the cost of erection. See also:Toynbee See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, Commercial See also:Street, was founded in 1884 under the trusteeship of the See also:Universities Settlements Association and named after See also:Arnold Toynbee (d.1883), a philanthropist who devoted himself to See also:work in this part of London. Other institutions are the London See also:Hospital, Whitechapel, the East London See also:children's hospital, the See also:head-quarters of Dr See also:Barnardo's Homes, Stepney See also:Causeway, and Her See also:Majesty's Hospital for waifs connected therewith; the Stepney training See also:college of the Society for Promoting See also:Christian Know-ledge, and the Spitalfields trade and technical school. There is a See also:fish See also:market in Shadwell, and a See also:vegetable market in Spitalfields. Stepney is a See also:suffragan bishopric in the See also:diocese of London. The municipal borough comprises the Stepney, Whitechapel, Mile End, Limehouse and St See also:George divisions of the Tower Hamlets See also:parliamentary borough, each See also:division returning one member. The borough See also:council consists of a See also:mayor, 10 aldermen, and 6o councillors. Area, 1765.6 acres.
The name appears in Domesday and later as Stevenhethe. The suffix is thus the See also:common See also:form See also:hythe, a haven; but for the prefix no certain derivation is offered. At Mile End, so called from its distance from the City (Aldgate), the rebels from See also:Essex under the leadership of Wat See also:Tyler assembled (1381), and here See also:Richard II. first met them in parley. See also:Pepys records the See also:village as a favourite place of resort.
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