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BOW-COMMON, a chapelry in the parishes of Limehouse, Stepney, Bromley-St. Leonard, and All-SaintsPoplar, Middlesex; on the Blackwall Extension railway, within Tower Hamlets borough, in the eastern suburbs of London, 3 miles E by N of St Pauls. It was constituted in 1858. Pop., 2,077. Houses, 272. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £150.* Patron, the Rev. A. B. Cotton.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Middlesex Ancient County |
| Place: | Bow Common |
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