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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Poplar. You may be able to find further references to Poplar in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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All Saints, Poplar | parish | Bartholomew |
POPLAR | a parish and a district | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Poplar.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Blackwall | district and railway station | Bartholomew |
BLACKWALL | a hamlet | Imperial |
Millwall | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Poplar within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 4 |
Celia Fiennes | 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Blackwall | 0 | 2 |
Canning Town | 0 | 3 |
the Isle of Dogs | 0 | 3 |
Bow Common | 0 | 1 |
Limehouse | 10 | 2 |
Tower Hamlets | 0 | 2 |
Millwall | 0 | 1 |
Ratcliffe | 8 | 2 |
Bromley | 0 | 2 |
Bow | 1 | 2 |
Mile End | 0 | 3 |
Stepney | 5 | 2 |
Stratford Marsh | 0 | 1 |
Shadwell | 2 | 2 |
Greenwich | 33 | 3 |
Old Ford | 0 | 2 |
Rotherhithe | 0 | 2 |
West Ham | 2 | 3 |
Silvertown | 0 | 2 |
Plaistow | 0 | 2 |