Wapping

Wapping is a district in East London in the modern borough of Tower Hamlets (London, England). It is located between the Thames and the throughway called "The Highway," and has a long association with maritime industry and the Royal Navy.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition

Phase 1

Meeting of the Ballast-Heavers’ Wives. (Volume 3): "One immediately rose and said, 'They do it regularly at a publican’s in Wapping; and I know the men that have paid for them have had six jobs together, when my husband has had none for weeks.' 'There are now,' added another, 'fourteen at that very place who never lodge there, though they are paying for lodgings.'"

Phase 2

Of the Trades and Localities of the Street-Jews. (Volume 2)

The Coalbackers. (Volume 3)

The Ballast-Heavers. (Volume 3)

Of Prostitution in London (Volume 4)

Layers

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.504177400000
Longitude: -0.056373600000