Editing Cockney (section)

===London's East End===
The traditional core districts of the [[East End]] include the [[Middlesex]] towns of [[Bethnal Green]], [[Whitechapel]], [[Spitalfields]], [[Shoreditch]], [[Stepney]], [[Wapping]], [[Limehouse]], [[Poplar, London|Poplar]], [[Haggerston]], [[Shoreditch]], [[Hackney, London|Hackney]], [[Hoxton]], [[Bow, London|Bow]] and [[Mile End]]. Nearly all of these areas had originally been part of the Manor and Parish of [[Stepney]]. In the 1600s and 1700s a [[Cockney's Feast]], also later known as the Stepney Feast was held in Stepney each May. The purpose of the event was to raise money so that Stepney boys could be apprenticed in the maritime trades.

The informal definition of the East End has gradually expanded to areas including as [[Poplar, London|Poplar]], [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], [[West Ham]] and [[Canning Town]], as these have formed part of London's growing [[conurbation]].