Metropolitan borough in the County of London in existence 1900-65. Created out of the following: * Limehouse Board of Works : Limehouse, Shadwell, Ratcliff, Wapping * Whitechapel Board of Works: Mile End New Town, Liberty of Norton Folgate (part), Old Artillery Ground, St Botolph Without Aldgate, *Spitalfields, Liberties of the Tower of London, Whitechapel Clement Attlee was Mayor of Stepney 1919 and MP for Limehouse. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]. Now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets