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Stepney is a district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in London's East End that grew out of a medieval village around St Dunstan's church and the 15th century ribbon development of Mile End Road. The area built up rapidly in the 19th century, mainly to accommodate immigrant workers and displaced London poor, and developed a reputation for poverty, overcrowding, violence and political dissent. It was severely damaged during the Blitz, with over a third of housing totally destroyed; and then, in the 1960s, slum clearance and development replaced most residential streets with tower blocks and modern housing estates. Some Georgian architecture and Victorian era terraced housing survive in patches: for example Arbour Square, the eastern side of Stepney Green, and the streets around Matlock Street.
The area has not yet experienced the levels of gentrification seen in nearby Bow, Wapping and Limehouse but some redevelopment has taken place, including the former Arbour Square Police Station and the East End Mission building.
Stepney is roughly bounded by Commercial Road, part of the A13, in the south, Mile End Road, part of the A11, in the north and the Regent's Canal in the east. The Western Boundary with Whitechapel is rather ambiguous. It is administered by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Stepney was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stepney district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Stepney may refer to:
Places- Stepney, London
- Stepney, Kingston upon Hull
- Stepney, South Australia
- Stepney, Connecticut
- Stepney, a place in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Stepney, a character in The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry
- Stepney, a character in The Wombles, TV series
- Stepney, an LB&SCR A1 class "Terrier" steam locomotive preserved on the Bluebell Railway
- Stepney, a popular name for a spare tire in India.
- Nigel Stepney, involved in the 2007 Formula One espionage controversy
- Stepney family
Stepney was an ancient civil and ecclesiastical parish in the historic county of Middlesex to the east and north east of the City of London, England.
Usage examples of "stepney".
We intend to approach the following groups: the Totters of Tooting, the Wendles of Wandsworth, the Stumpers of Stepney, the Whitechapel Wallopers, the Peckham Punch-uppers, the Neasden Nudgers and the Hoxton Humpers.
We go back to Stepney and pray my missis has stuck summat tasty in the oven.
Stan had picked Troy up from the Divisions, transferred him from Stepney to the Yard, made him a Sergeant at the age of twenty-four.
As a young copper, learning his job through the soles of a pair of size-six, unbendable police boots, pounding the paving stones of Stepney and Limehouse, Troy had on many occasions wondered what the role of a copper was.
There had been a terrific battle waged in this bathroom but there was no sign of the Stepney Borrible.
This man came from Stepney, and Bill went down there to make enquiries.
He carried the Stepney ILP branch banner on demonstrations through Central London.
Labour won in a sweep, and Stepney as well as several other London boroughs had their first Labour majority.
Attlee eked out a winning margin of 2 percent in his well-tended Stepney constituency, which ordinarily returned him by a vote of two to one.
He had lived in Stepney for most of his life and had come to South London to work for Joe Maitland when the warehouse opened two years ago.
He started to become edgy and began to make the odd trip to Stepney, telling her that he wanted to set up a business which this time would be perfectly legal.
One day when he told her he would have to make a trip to Stepney she confronted him.
Joe went across the river to Stepney and returned later that evening looking a little less depressed, but he made other trips, more and more frequently, and Carrie began to feel that he was slowly slipping away 419 from her.
The flight was delayed while passengers used blankets to smother the flames, allowing Miss Stepney to be escorted from the 355-ton jetliner by airport personnel.
A trader sailed from Stepney town With a keg full of gold and a velvet gown: Ho, the bully rover Jack, Waiting with his yard aback Out upon the Lowland sea!