''For the place in
Adelaide ,
South Australia , see
Stepney, South Australia .
is an inner-city district in the
London Borough Of Tower Hamlets . It is located 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east north-east of
Charing Cross and forms part of the
East End Of London .
The area consists of mostly post-war
High Density Housing and a few streets of terraced housing that escaped slum-clearance. There is light industry and a few warehouses although this is mostly in decline.
Commercial Road , part of the
A13 , passes through the area east to west. Stepney is served by
Stepney Green Tube Station which takes its name from the open space
Stepney Green .
The area has thusfar mostly escaped mass
Gentrification although the nearby areas of
Whitechapel ,
Wapping ,
Limehouse and
Mile End , which surround Stepney, are becoming increasingly redeveloped.
St Dunstan's is Stepney's oldest church.
In
1085 Stepney was listed in the
Domesday Book survey of England which was recorded in
Old French , and whose translation includes:
III. The land of the Bishop of London
In 'Ossulstone' hundred the Bishop of London holds 32 hides. There is land for 25 ploughs. To the demesne belong 14 hides, and there are 3 ploughs; and 22 ploughs among the villans. There are 44 villans each on 1 virgate, and 7 villans each on half a hide, and 9 villans each on half a virgate, and 46 cottars on 1 hide: they pay 30s a year. There are 4 mills rendering £4.16s less 4d, meadow for 25 ploughs, pasture for the livestock of the vill and 15s, woodland for 500 pigs and 40s. In all it is worth £48: and when received, the same: £50. This manor belonged and belongs to the bishopric.
Bishop William held this land in demesne, in the manor of , on the day on which King Edward was alive and dead.
In the same vill Ranulph Flambard holds 31/2 hides of the bishop.
''Stepney'' is the name of a
Steam Locomotive on the
Bluebell Railway , which has also featured as a character of the same name in
The Railway Series by
Rev. W. Awdry .
''Stepney'' is also the name of an episcopal area in the Anglican .
- "Domesday Book - A Complete Translation" Folio 127V: MIDDLESEX. Penguin Books. Nov 2002. ISBN 0141005238
