Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wapping

Wapping, par. and eccl. dist. with ry. sta., Middlesex, on river Thames, in E. of London and in parl. bor. of Tower Hamlets - par., 40 ac., pop. 2225; dist. (extending into St George in the East par.), pop. 3560; the sta. is 1½ mile SE. of Fenchurch Street sta., London; the London Docks are at Wapping.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wapping Hmlt/CP/AP       Middlesex AncC
Place: Wapping

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