DOGS, or STEPNEY-MARSH (ISLE-of), isle, in the
parish of STEPNEY, Tower division of the hundred of
OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, Smiles (E. S.E.)
from St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The population is
returned with the parish; The isle comprises about eight
hundred and thirty-six acres of ground, and is thought
to have received name from a kennel for the king's
hounds having been anciently situated upon it. The
site of a chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is now occupied
by a farm-house, sometimes called the Chapel House.
There is a ship-canal across it, from Limehouse
to Blackwall, to avoid a curve of the Thames between
those two places. At the south-eastern part
of it is a ferry over the Thames to Greenwich; and
near it the Steam washing- Company have an establishment;
there .are also mills for extracting oil from linseed,
and for making oil-cake for feeding cattle; a manufactory
for chain cables, and another for smelling-salts.
There is a place of worship for Independents.