Boundaries
The borough was created by combining the areas of the following civil parishes and extra parochial places:
- Limehouse (Limehouse Board of Works)
- Mile End New Town (Whitechapel Board of Works)
- Mile End Old Town (vestry)
- Liberty of Norton Folgate (part) (Whitechapel Board of Works)
- Old Artillery Ground (Whitechapel Board of Works)
- Ratcliff (Limehouse Board of Works)
- St Botolph Without Aldgate (Whitechapel Board of Works)
- St George in the East (vestry)
- Shadwell (Limehouse Board of Works)
- Spitalfields (Whitechapel Board of Works)
- Liberties of the Tower of London (Whitechapel Board of Works)
- Wapping (Limehouse Board of Works)
- Whitechapel (Whitechapel Board of Works)
The area maps roughly to the London postcode E1.
The road sign in front of Mile End tube station and a street sign on Leman Street in Aldgate still have the wording "Borough of Stepney" just visible on them.
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Famous quotes containing the word boundaries:
“We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh, breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)
“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)