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Ratcliffe is a former hamlet which now is a section of the contemporary city of Greater London, England, and is located in Stepney near the River Thames.

History

Ratcliffe in earlier times was also known as "sailor town". Located on the edge of Narrow Street on the Wapping waterfront it was made up of lodging houses, bars, brothels, music halls and opium dens. This overcrowded and squalid district aquired an unsavory reputation with a large transient population. In 1794 approximately half of the hamlet was destroyed in a fire even so it continued as a notorious slum into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ratcliff became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney in 1900.

External links

• Ratcliffe http://www.eolfhs.org.uk/parish/ratcliff.htm
• Ratcliffe http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/ratcliff.htm

See also

• St Dunstan's, Stepney

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