Stepney, Kingston upon Hull
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Stepney is an area of Kingston upon Hull within the larger area of Sculcoates, north of the city centre on the (A1079) Beverley-Hull main road. Before the mid-19th century the place was a small hamlet outside the urban area of Kingston upon Hull
Modern Stepney is absorbed into the urban sprawl of Hull. The (A1079) Hull to Beverley main road passes directly through the area, with Stepney centred on its junction with Stepney Lane. To the west is Pearson Park; approximate boundaries are formed by Queens Road/Sculcoates Lane to the north; the Beverley and Barmston Drain to the east, beyond which is Wincolmlee (Sculcoates); to the south is further urban development along Beverley Road, leading to the city centre.
Stepney is an urban area, mostly housing, with shopping and services along the main road, and some light industry. The original (pre 1850s) village street survives as a minor kink in Beverley Road, and is indicated by a narrowing of the street, and by a section of more modest two-storey houses.
The area falls within the Beverley Road and Sculcoates areas of Hull.
Following the foundation of Hull by Edward I in 1293 proceedings were undertaken to create permanent roads to the neighbouring towns, including one to Beverley; in 1302 a jury decided on the best routes for the roads. The road to Beverley became a turnpike under an act of 1744.
The Beverley and Barmston Drain was authorised by an act of 1798, and was the largest of local drains, running roughly north-south about a third of a mile east of Stepney. A bridge on Stepney Lane dating from around 1800 crosses the drain, and is still extant. A smaller drain ran north-south between Barmston Drain and Beverley Road, Cottingham Drain – it was culverted in the latter half of the 20th century and part it now forms a cycle or footpath, other parts built over.
The name "Stepney" is thought to derive from "Stepping Stone" or "Stepstone", from the presence of a mounting block near the place.
An estated house, Stepney Lodge was built in around the end of the 18th century, by 1817 housing had been built along Stepney Lane.
By the 1850s Stepney included houses along the south side of Stepney Lane; the Bull Inn and Rose Tavern at the junction of Stepney Lane and the Beverley Road; a paper mill, Stepney Mills; as well as houses "Stepney House" north along Beverley Road, and Stepney Lodge north of Stepney Lane.Zion Chapel (or Stepney chapel) was built in 1849 in a simple classical style with a stuccoed front for the New Connexion Methodists, James Rank (father of Joseph Rank) had a mill in Stepney in the mid 1800s. The mills were initially wind powered. In the 1850s and 60s the area was still extensively agricultural, there were vineries at Stepney Lodge, and a large plant nursery was cultivating exotic and other greenhouse plants.
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