East End of London
The East End of London is the historic core of wider East London. It lies east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It does not have universally accepted boundaries to the north and east, though the River Lea is sometimes seen as the eastern boundary.
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The East End of London is the historic core of wider East London. It lies east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It does not have universally accepted boundaries to the north and east, though the River Lea is sometimes seen as the eastern boundary. Parts of it may be regarded as lying within Central London. The term ‘East of Aldgate Pump’ is sometimes used as a synonym for the area. The East End began to emerge in the Middle Ages with initially slow urban growth outside the eastern walls, which later accelerated, especially in the 19th century, to absorb pre-existing settlements. The area was notorious for its deep poverty, overcrowding and associated social problems. The closure of the last of the Port of London’s East End docks in 1980 created further challenges and led to attempts at regeneration, with Canary Wharf and the Olympic Park among the most successful examples. While some parts of the East End are undergoing rapid change, the area continues to contain some of the worst poverty in Britain. The definition of ‘East End’ varies widely, with some commentators preferring a definition broader still, encompassing districts such as West Ham, East Ham, Leyton, Walthamstow, parts or all of Hackney and Ilford. The wider EastLondon area might be said to comprise, or approximate to, the two eastern wards of the city, the former Tower Division and those parts of London east ofthe Lea.
Beyond the small eastern extramural wards, the narrowest definition restricts theEast End to the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets. A more common preference is to add to Tower Hamlet the former parish and borough of Shoreditch, which is now the southern part of the modern Borough ofHackney. The first known written record of East End as a distinct entity, as opposed its component parts, comes from John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London, which describes London as consisting of four parts: the City, Westminster, Southwark, and ‘That Part beyond the Tower’. Later, as London grew further, the fully urbanised Tower Division became a byword for wider East East London, before East London growing further still, east ofThe area is taken to include the small ancientextramural City wards of Bishopsgate Without and the Portsoken. The various channels of the river Lea are sometimes viewed as the east boundary. The walls were such a constraint to growth, that the position of the gates has been fundamental to the shaping of the capital. Even beyond the walls, the land outside the gates separated Cripplegate and Sokelegate to the west and Cornhill to the east. During the Anglo-Saxon period the two sides were separate administration and had distinct economies, with separate customs and customs regulations. The gates, built in the late 1300s, were the first or early third century, built with the second or third entrance to the city.
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