Stepney

Stepney

infobox UK place
country = England
region= London
population=
official_name= Stepney
latitude= 51.5152
longitude= -0.0462
post_town= LONDON
postcode_area= E
postcode_district= E1
london_borough= Tower Hamlets
dial_code= 020
os_grid_reference= TQ355814
constituency_westminster=Bethnal Green and Bow

Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located convert|3.6|mi|km|1|lk=on east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London.

The area is a mix of post-war high density housing, Victorian Mansion Blocks and terraced housing that was not demolished during the slum-clearances. The East Side of historic Stepney Green is notable for its architecture and Arbour Square and Sidney Square and the surrounding streets retain many of their Georgian and Victorian houses.

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.

The area has not yet experienced the levels of gentrification seen in nearby Bow, Wapping and Limehouse but some redevelopment has taken place, notably with the Roger Black scheme Stepney City. The former Arbour Square Police Station and the East End Mission building are also being redeveloped.

History

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 Stepney 32 hides. There is land for 25 ploughs. To the demesne belong 14 hides, and there are 3 ploughs; and 22 ploughs among the villeins. There are 44 villans each on 1 virgate, and 7 villans each on half a hide, and 9 villeins 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 Stepney, on the day on which King Edward was alive and dead.

In the same vill Ranulph Flambard holds 3½ hides of the bishop. ["Domesday Book - A Complete Translation" Folio 127V: MIDDLESEX. Penguin Books. Nov 2002. ISBN 0-14-100523-8]

St Dunstan's is Stepney's oldest church, founded in 923, but the present building dates principally from the 1400s. St Dunstan's has a long association with the sea, being responsible for registration of British maritime births, deaths and marriages until the 19th century.

In the early 1900s, Stepney was one of the most Jewish neighborhoods in England; it was eventually replaced by Stamford Hill. [ [http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_SDDRGVT "Kosher in the country" "The Economist" 01 Jun 2006] accessed 14 August 2007]

The Siege of Sidney Street took place in Stepney in 1911.

Education

:"For details of education in Stepney see the List of schools in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets"

is the place where the famous 'suhel and razak' love affair took its roots. the pair now have 12 children and 14 grandchildren together, despite the fact suhel or boga-beta as he is widely known, was only 16 at the time of his first sexual expeience with razak or magi-beti as she is known by her children.

Transport and locale

;Nearest places
* Limehouse
* Mile End
* Shadwell
* Whitechapel
* Wapping

Nearest DLR|intro=In the southern part of the district, the nearest|Limehouse. The station is also served by c2c, from Fenchurch Street station. It was formerly known as "Stepney East".

Notable residents

*Des O'Connor was born in Stepney [imdb name|id=0640300|name=Dec O'Connor] .
*Steven Berkoff was born in Vallance Road [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2124821.ece "Steven Berkoff: The real East Enders" The Independent 04 Jan 2007] accessed 10 May 2007]
*Terence Stamp was born in Stepney
*Craig Fairbrass was born in Stepney
*Roy Shaw was born in Stepney
*Charles Coborn was born in Stepney
*Ledley King was born in Stepney
*Darren Purse was born in Stepney
*John Sentamu, formerly Bishop of Stepney, and now the (97th) Archbishop of York as well as the Church of England's first black Archbishop
*Kenney Jones drummer with The Small Faces and The Who was born in Stepney 16 September 1948 and attended St. George's In The Green School. [small faces the young mods' forgotten story Acid Jazz ISBN0952393506 p.58]
*"Bombardier" Billy Wells, the heavyweight boxer was born in Stepney
* Father Richard Wilson, a priest from Stepney, campaigned to improve the conditions of his parishioners who lived in hopper huts during the hop picking season in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He founded the "Hoppers' Hospitals" at Five Oak Green, Kent [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/kent/article_4.shtml "The hoppers of Kent" (BBC Kent)] accessed 21 Dec 2007] .

Notable fictional appearances

The BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart was set in Stepney.Fact|date=March 2007

The Rolling Stones' song "Play with Fire" references Stepney: "Now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore."

In Blackadder II Episode 6, Lord Percy explains the disappearance of his Uncle Bertram's old oak table thus: "'twas on the night of the great Stepney fire. And on that same, terrible night, his house and all his other things completely vanished too. So did he, in fact. It was a most perplexing mystery."

In the film "Help!", Alfie Bass has a cameo where he portrays a doorman of an Indian restaurant. When Ringo Starr discovers Alfie Bass is not an actual Indian, he exclaims "He's from the West!" Bass replies "Nah, east...Stepney."

The English Nursery Rhyme Oranges and Lemons refers to the "...bells of Stepney."

In George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", set in England, he writes about rocket bombs killing many people: "One fell on a crowded film theater in Stepney, burying several hundred victims among the ruins." This is in Chapter 5, Part 2.

ee also

*Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
*Battle of Stepney
*"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 the "Bluebell" Engine (vol 18 of The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry] .
*"Stepney" is also the name of an episcopal area in the Anglican Diocese of London, which covers the London boroughs of Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets, and has its own suffragan bishop [ [http://www.london.anglican.org/StepneyArea Stepney Episcopal Area] accessed 10 May 2007] .
*The word "stepney" is used in India, as well as in Egyptian Arabic [Martin Hinds and El Said-Badawi, "A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic". Beirut: Librarie du Liban, 1986] (in which it is pronounced إسْتِبْن), to refer the spare tyre of a car, after Stepney Tyre & Rubber Co Ltd's [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B2155] popular spare motor wheel, which was invented by Walter Davies in 1904. The company was named after Stepney Street, Llanelli, Wales.
*Also in Brazil the common word for spare tyre, "estepe", appears to be derived from stepney through a classic apocope. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/halloffame/innovators/walterdavies.shtml BBC Wales Bio of Walter Daies] accessed 10 May 2007] In the new series of the Wombles the ethnic womble is called 'Stepney'
* Stepney Historical Trust

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