A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CHRISTCHURCH-SPITALFIELDS, a parish in Whitechapel district, Middlesex; in the eastern part of the metropolis, near the terminus of the Eastern Counties railway, 1¼ mile ENE of St. Paul's. Acres, 74. Real property, £49, 526. Pop. in 1841, 20, 436; in 1861, 20, 593. Houses, 2, 063. The parish was constituted in 1729; it previously was a hamlet of Stepney; and it now includes the chapelries of St. Stephen and St. Mary-Spital-square. The inhabitants are chiefly journeymen-silk-weavers. The head living is a rectory, and the two chapelries are vicarages in the diocese of London. Value of the rectory, £400;* of St. Stephen, £420;* of St. Mary, £300.* Patrons of the rectory, Truman, Hanbury, and Co.; of St. Stephen, Trustees; of St. Mary, the Trustees of Hyndman's Bounty. The parish church, situated in Church-street, was built in 1729 by Nicholas Hawksmoor; repaired in 1836, after a great fire; and has a steeple 225 feet high. Spital-square was built on the churchyard of a priory, founded about 1197, and called St. Mary-Spital, -the word Spital being an abbreviation of hospital. See Spitalfields.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Spitalfields CP/AP Whitechapel RegD/PLU/PLPar Middlesex AncC |
| Place: | Spitalfields |
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