Image: Part of Cary's Map, 1786

• PAGE ADDED • 21 MARCH 2006 •

List of the original Tower Hamlets

HAMLET
  Became a parish - Name - Met Bor (from 1900) - London Bororough (from 1965)

Bethnal Green (9)
  1743 - St Matthew - Bethnal Green - Tower Hamlets
Blackwall
  No parish - Poplar - Tower Hamlets
Bow (2)
  1311 - St Mary, Stratford le Bow - Poplar - Tower Hamlets
Bromley-by-Bow
  1536 - St Mary the Virgin, Bromley St Leonard - Poplar - Tower Hamlets
East Smithfield
  No parish - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Hackney (5)
  1292 - St Augustine - Hackney - Hackney
Limehouse
  1730 - St Anne - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Mile End (1)
  No parish - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Norton Folgate
  No parish - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Old Ford
  No parish - Poplar -  Tower Hamlets
Poplar (7)
  1817 - St Matthias, Poplar High Street - Poplar - Tower Hamlets
Ratcliffe
  No parish - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
St Katharine (6)
  No parish - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Shadwell
  1669 - St Paul - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Shoreditch
  1160 - St Leonard - Shoreditch - Hackney
Spitalfields
  1729 - Christ Church - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Tower Extra (3)
  No parish - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Tower Intra (4)
  1150 - St Peter ad Vincula - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Trinity Minories (8)
  1657 - Holy Trinity, Minories - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Wapping
  1694 - St John - Stepney - Tower Hamlets
Whitechapel
  1329 - St Mary Matfellon - Stepney - Tower Hamlets

(1) Included Old Town & New Town.
(2) Also called 'Stratford le Bow', not to be confused with Stratford itself, now in Newham, which became a parish in 1719.
(3) Also called Tower Liberty Without.
(4) Also called Tower Liberty Within.
(5) From 1630 the parish was called St John.
(6) The old precinct of the'Hospital of St Katharine, founded 1275. Later St Katharine Docks, 1825.
(7) The same year All Saints was also built.
(8) The old precinct of the Abbey of St Clare, founded 1293.
(9) St John, Cambridge Heath Road, was the second church, in 1826.

Note also:

(a) Stepney is not in the list of hamlets since it was the only parish and therefore a village, not a hamlet. Its parish, St Dunstan, was founded 952.

(b) St George in the East is not in the list of hamlets either. The church was built 1715-29 and the parish was separated from St Dunstan in 1728.

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