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Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Mile End. You may be able to find further references to Mile End in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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MILE-END | a railway station | Imperial |
MILE-END-OLD-TOWN | a quondam hamlet | Imperial |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Mile End within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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John Wesley | 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Bow Common | 0 | 1 |
Stepney | 5 | 2 |
Tower Hamlets | 0 | 2 |
Bow | 1 | 2 |
Victoria Park | 0 | 3 |
Limehouse | 10 | 2 |
Old Ford | 0 | 2 |
Bromley | 0 | 2 |
Ratcliffe | 8 | 2 |
Bethnal Green | 6 | 2 |
South Hackney | 0 | 1 |
Whitechapel | 7 | 2 |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 2 |
Shadwell | 2 | 2 |
St George in the East | 0 | 2 |
Hackney Wick | 0 | 1 |
Stratford Marsh | 0 | 1 |
Poplar | 5 | 3 |
Haggerston | 0 | 2 |
London Docks | 0 | 1 |