Descriptive gazetteer entries

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
MILE-END	a railway station	Imperial
MILE-END-OLD-TOWN	a quondam hamlet	Imperial

Travel writing

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.
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
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