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Shadwell in Middlesex County England History and GeographySHADWELL, a parish in the Tower division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, 1½ mile (E. by S.) from London, containing 9557 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the northern bank of the river Thames, and comprises several streets, which are lighted with gas, and supplied with water from the East London water-works. It is within the jurisdiction of the New Police, the Thames Police Office, and a court of requests held in Whitechapel. There are some roperies in the parish. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church, dedicated to St. Paul, is a handsome modern edifice, the old structure having, within the last few years, been taken down, and the present building erected upon its site, but within the original foundations. There are places of worship for Independents and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. A parochial school, in which forty-five boys, and thirty-five girls are instructed, is supported by subscription. The British Union school, instituted in 1816, in Shakspeare's walk, affords instruction to four hundred and sixty boys, and one hundred and eighty girls; it is conducted on the Lancasterian plan, and is supported by voluntary contributions. The Protestant dissenters' original charity school was founded in 1712, and is situated in Shakspeare's walk: since its institution, one thousand five hundred and ninety-two boys have been received and one thousand five hundred and twenty-two apprenticed: at present there are seventy boys, who are educated and clothed by subscription. A chapel is attached to the institution. Thirty-one almshouses for the widows of poor seamen, founded and endowed in 1713, by Captain James Cooke and Alice his wife, are situated in this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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