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Mile End history

Toponymy

Mile End is recorded in 1288 as La Mile End, meaning ‘the hamlet a mile away’ The mile distance was in relation to Aldgate in the City of London, reached by the London-to-Colchester road. In around 1691 Mile End became known as Mile End Old Town because a new unconnected settlement to the west and adjacent to Spitalfields had become known.

Beginnings

Mile End Road is an ancient route from London to the East. It was moved to its present-day alignment after the foundation of Bow Bridge in 1110. In the medieval period, it was known as ‘Aldgatestrete’, as it led to the eastern entrance to the City of London at Aldgate.

Peasants’ Revolt

In 1381, an uprising against the tax collectors of Brentwood quickly spread across the South-East of England. The rebels of Essex, led by a priest named Jack Straw, and the men of Kent marched on London. On 14 June, the young king Richard II rode to Mile End to meet the rebels and signed their charter. The king subsequently had the leaders and many rebels executed.

Expansion

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Mile End Hospital was established as the infirmary for the local workhouse in 1859. Mile End Arena was a ring covered with a canopy with crumbling walls and rickety corrugated iron behind Mile End station in 1933, and was only used in summer. Mileend Arena opened in 1933 and closed in 1953. The Guardian Angels Church was opened in 1903 and paid for by Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, as a memorial to his youngest sister, Lady Margaret Howard.

Second World War

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Mile End was hit by the first V-1 flying bomb to strike London in 1944. Eight civilians were killed, 30 injured and 200 made homeless by the blast.

Reconstruction

A part of Mile End remained mostly derelict for many years after the Second World War, until it was cleared to extend Mile End Park.

Contemporary

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Mile End Hospital became the Royal London Hospital (Mile End) in 1990. Mile End Stadium hosted a gig by Britpop band Blur in 1995. A groundbreaking project funded by the Millennium Commission called the Green Bridge, a pedestrian and cyclist separation structure which was built over the A11 in 2000.

  

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