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:
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“Not too many years ago, a child’s experience was limited by how far he or she could ride a bicycle or by the physical boundaries that parents set. Today ... the real boundaries of a child’s life are set more by the number of available cable channels and videotapes, by the simulated reality of videogames, by the number of megabytes of memory in the home computer. Now kids can go anywhere, as long as they stay inside the electronic bubble.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)