Spitalfields, City of London

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Spitalfields is a settlement in City of London, City of London

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Spitalfields within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Spitalfields in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Spitalfields, par., Middlesex, in parl. bor. of Tower Hamlets, 73 ac., pop. 21,340; after 1685 was extensively settled by French Protestants, who introduced the silk mfr., and is still chiefly occupied by silk-weavers; it derives its name from the spital or hospital of St Mary, founded at the end of the 12th century.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Old Artillery Ground, par., Middlesex, within the parl. bor. of Tower Hamlets, 5 ac., pop. 2516.

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