Editing Bethnal Green (section)

===Early history===
[[File:Detail of black mulberry tree (Morus nigra) in the grounds of the former London Chest Hospital 02.jpg|thumb|The Bethnal Green Mulberry, at the former London Chest Hospital.]]
In what would become northern Bethnal Green (known as [[Cambridge Heath]]) a tract of [[common land]], which stretched to the east and west, a part of the [[Stepney#Manor and Ancient Parish|Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney]]. The heath was used as [[pasture]] where people grazed their sheep in the 13th century, though 1275 records suggest at least one house stood there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eastlondonhistory.com/2010/11/07/cambridge-heath/|title=Cambridge Heath - eastlondonhistory.com|website=eastlondonhistory.com}}</ref> [[Bethnal Green mulberry tree#The site|Stepney's Manor House (known as ''Bishopswood'', later ''Bishop's Hall'')]] was located in Bethnal Green from at least 1207,<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Stepney: Settlement and Building to c.1700 |title= A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11, Stepney, Bethnal Green |editor-first=T. F. T. |editor-last=Baker |location=London|year=1998|pages=13–19|website= British History Online|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol11/pp13-19 |accessdate=6 December 2021}}</ref> on a site subsequently occupied by the [[London Chest Hospital]].