Stepney

Stepney is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London. Stepney is no longer officially defined, and is usually used to refer to a relatively small area.

Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stepney Green Park and Stanley Atkinson Clock Tower.

Stepney Green Park

Park

Photo: Ewan Munro, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stepney Green Park is a 4.62-hectare park in Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London. It is a remnant of a larger area of common land that was formerly known as Mile End Green.

Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, east London, England. It is located just off the Commercial Road approximately one mile east of the City of London.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East End and Ratcliff.

East End

Photo: Mark Towning, CC BY 2.0.

The East End is a district of inner London. The boundaries of the East End are not well defined, but for the purposes of this page it covers from the edge of The City to the River Lea. Highlights include the large cluster of markets and the pubs.

Ratcliff

Quarter

Ratcliff or Ratcliffe is a locality in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames between Limehouse, and Shadwell.

East London

Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.

East London is the part of London, England, east of the ancient City of London and north of the River Thames as it begins to widen. East London developed as London's docklands and the primary industrial centre.

Stepney

Type: Suburb with 16,200 residents
Description: district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Categories: town, area of London, and locality
Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5174° or 51° 31′ 3″ north

Longitude

-0.04622° or 0° 2′ 46″ west

Population

16,200

Elevation

39 feet (12 metres)

Open location code

9C3XGX83+XG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 27365038

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

2636948

Wikidata ID

Q123627

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Stepney” goes by many names.

Arabic: “ستبني”
Arabic: “ستيبني”
Armenian: “Ստեպնի”
Asturian: “Stepney”
Azerbaijani: “Stepni”
Belarusian: “Стэпні”
Bulgarian: “Степни”
Catalan: “Stepney”
Chinese: “斯特普尼”
Czech: “Stepney”
Danish: “Stepney”
Dutch: “Stepney”
Egyptian Arabic: “ستبنى”
Finnish: “Stepney”
French: “Stepney”
German: “Stepney”
Hebrew: “סטפני”
Hindi: “स्टेपनी”
Irish: “Stepney”
Italian: “Stepney”
Japanese: “ステップニー”
Japanese: “ステプニー”
Korean: “스테프니”
Ladin: “Stepney (Greater London)”
Ladin: “Stepney”
Luxembourgish: “Stepney”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Stepney”
Norwegian: “Stepney”
Occitan (post 1500): “Stepney”
Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stybbanhyð”
Persian: “استپنی”
Polish: “Stepney”
Portuguese: “Stepney”
Russian: “Степни”
Slovak: “Stepney”
Slovenian: “Stepney”
South Azerbaijani: “استپنی”
Spanish: “Stepney”
Swedish: “Stepney, London”
Swedish: “Stepney”
Turkish: “Stepney”
Urdu: “اسٹیپنی، لندن”
Urdu: “سٹیپنی، لندن”
Vlaams: “Stepney”
Welsh: “Stepney”
Western Frisian: “Stepney”

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