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Stepney.-- par. and ry. sta. (on Great Eastern Ry.), Middlesex, in E. of London and in parl. bor. of Tower Hamlets, 832 ac., pop. 132,393; comprises the townships of Mile End New Town, Mile End Old Town, and Ratcliff; prior to 1669 it also included Limehouse, Shadwell, St George in the East, Spitalfields, Bethual Green, Bow, and Poplar.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "parish and railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stepney Parish Stepney Parish Middlesex Ancient County |
| Place: | Stepney |
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