Thamesis Descriptio IoD

An extract from a government survey of the Thames defences at the time of the Spanish Armada. The red arrow denotes "Isle of Dogges", then a small eyot (river island) offhore of the whole peninsula, at that time called Stepney Marsh. The peninsula later came to be called after the river island. Stepney was a large and prosperous parish supported by marsh wool, fishing and very many wharf incomes. Its immediate daughter parishes of Poplar, Blackwall and others emerged to cater to its much grown, urban population by the 19th century.

Date

1588

Place

the River Thames

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

1,478 × 1,726 pixels

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