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    Spitalfields City Farm is a city farm in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, a short distance from Brick Lane. The farm was opened in 1978 on a 1.3-acre...
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    Spitalfields is formed around Commercial Street and Brick Lane. It has several markets, including Spitalfields Market, the historic Old Spitalfields Market...
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    Christ Church Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. On Commercial Street in the East End and...
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    Stephen Fry's Key To The City. On 27 April 2019, freeman of the city Simone Lakmaker drove Mark, a ram from Spitalfields City Farm, over London Bridge as...
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    south-western part of the peninsula. The name is next applied to the Isle of Dogs Farm (originally known as Pomfret Manor) shown on a map of 1683. At the same time...
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    for the British Bangladeshi community. Whitechapel and neighbouring Spitalfields were the locations of the infamous 11 Whitechapel murders (1888–91),...
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    Brick Lane (category Spitalfields)
    Brick Lane and Spitalfields was branded as Banglatown in 1997, and the electoral ward of Spitalfields was changed to Banglatown & Spitalfields in 2002. The...
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    of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the City Bridge Foundation, a charitable trust founded in 1282. The bridge was constructed...
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    The name was later changed to Stepney Community Trust. Stepney City Farm is a city farm which provides a number of community services, such as guided tours...
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    run at Spitalfields City Farm in East London. The 2016 race takes place on Sunday March 27. All proceeds from the race go to Spitalfields City Farm, which...
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