The East End, also known simply as the East End of London, refers to the geographical term for the east of the City of London. The East End spans much of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as well as parts of the London Borough of Hackney.
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The term 'East End' was first applied to the areas immediately east of, and entirely outside, the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, including Whitechapel and Stepney. Historically, the East End is conterminous with the Manor of Stepney.[1]
History[]
Fleeing economic hardship and religious persecution by the late 19th century, Jewish families settled in Spitalfields and Whitechapel.[2]
The East End concentration of key manufacturing industries and its docks made this one of the most prominent targets in the World War Two.[3]
By the late 1900s, immigrants from Bangladesh were the most numerous and continue to make up a large part of the population in the East End.[4]
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