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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.
MILE-END-NEW-TOWN. a quondam hamlet, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Whitechapel district, Middlesex. The quondam hamlet is now a compact portion of the metropolis; lies N of Whitechapel-road, on the Eastern Counties railway, between Bishopsgate and Mile-End r. stations, contiguous to Whitechapel, Spitalfields, and Bethnal-Green parishes, 1¾ mile ENE of St. Pauls; was once a part of the ancient parish of Stepney, but is now a distinct parish for the relief of the poor; and has a post office ‡ under London NE. Acres, 42. Real property, £16,373. Pop. in 1851,10,183; in 1861,10,845. Houses, 1,178.—The chapelry is conterminate with the quondam hamlet; was constituted in 1841; and bears the name of All Saints. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of London. The church stands in Spicer-street, and was built in 1839. There are an Independent chapel in Church-street, rebuiltin 1860; a Roman Catholic of St. Ann, with monastery and nunnery attached; national schools adjoining the church, and built in 1840; ragged schools, called King Edward's schools, in Albert-street; a refuge for destitute girls, called King Edward's refuge, and connected with the ragged schools; and one of the two workhouses of Whitechapel district, occupied, at the census of 1861, by 638 inmates.—The sub-district contains also parts of Whitechapel and Spitalfields parishes; and comprises 64 acres. Pop. in 1851,14,543; in 1861,15,392. Houses, 1,634.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a quondam hamlet, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Mile End New Town CP/Hmlt Whitechapel RegD/PLU/PLPar Middlesex AncC |
| Place names: | ALL SAINTS | MILE END NEW TOWN |
| Place: | Mile End New Town |
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