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Stratford Pewsey Stephen Stratford developed at the lowest crossing point of the River Lea and was a strategic gateway to London. Domesday Book recorded nine water-mills and, more recently, the…
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Stratford Pewsey Stephen
Stratford developed at the lowest crossing point of the River Lea and was a strategic gateway to London. Domesday Book recorded nine water-mills and, more recently, the largest tithe-mill in Britain was built here in 1776, which happily survives to this day. Part of the Essex parish of West Ham, its name, which derives from the Roman road to Colchester, was first mentioned shortly after the Norman Conquest.
Throughout the Middle Ages, Stratford's situation made it a trading place and a rural retreat for City merchants. The Abbey of Stratford Langthorne was founded in 1135, soon after the new Bow Bridge had been built, and it remained a wealthy instituion until its dissolution in 1538. Silk weaving and calico printing were the first industries to develop, together with the famous Bow porcelain works, but after the railway arrived, in 1839, Hudson, 'The Railway King', turned Stratford
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