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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described De Beauvoir Town like this:
BEAUVOIR TOWN, or De Beauvoir Town, a chapelry in West Hackney parish, London; near Kingsland Road, 2½ miles N by E of St. Paul's. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patron, R. a. De Beanvoir, Esq.: who built the church.
De Beauvoir Town is now part of HACKNEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how HACKNEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about De Beauvoir Town itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of De Beauvoir Town, in Hackney and Middlesex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23616
Date accessed: 15th November 2025
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