Editing Stepney (section)

====Ties with Shoreditch====
The origin of the neighbouring parish of Shoreditch is obscure, but it primarily served the manors of [[Hoxton]] and [[Haggerston]], both manors recorded at Domesday in 1086,<ref>{{cite web|title=Hoxton|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ3383/hoxton/|website=Open Domesday}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Haggerston|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ3483/haggerston/|website=Open Domesday}}</ref> together with a part of the Manor of Stepney.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol8/pp5-14|title=Historical introduction: Shoreditch High Street, east side &#124; British History Online|website=british-history.ac.uk|access-date=18 September 2022}}</ref> The parish church, [[St Leonard's, Shoreditch]], was built on land that was part of the Manor of Stepney. Parcels of land in [[Hackney Marshes]] (within the Manor of Stepney) long had a role in maintaining a lamp at St Leonards church.<ref>'The Church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch', in Survey of London: Volume 8, Shoreditch, ed. James Bird (London, 1922), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol8/pp91-125 [accessed 25 March 2025].</ref>

The manor of [[Hoxton]], or a manor called Hoxton, was in Shoreditch, yet in 1352 is recorded as part of the parish of Hackney.<ref>Medieval London suburbs, K McDonnell, p30</ref>
It is not clear if or how these links led to the inclusion of the parish of Shoreditch in the [[Tower Division]].