Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green

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Location of Bethnal Green in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green was a district in the metropolitan area of ​​the British capital London with the status of a Metropolitan Borough . It existed from 1900 to 1965 and was located in the northeast of the former County of London .

history

Bethnal Green was originally a hamlet belonging to Stepney and was raised to an independent civil parish in Middlesex in 1743 . From 1855, the community belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 Bethnal Green became part of the new County of London, and was converted into a Metropolitan Borough eleven years later.

When Greater London was founded in 1965, the metropolitan boroughs Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney merged to form the London Borough of Tower Hamlets .

statistics

The area was 759 acres (3.07 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Civil parish:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 22,310 33,619 45,676 62,018 74,088 90.193 105.101 120.104 126,961 129,132

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 129,680 128.183 117,238 108.194 58,353 47,078

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frederic Youngs: Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Volume I: Southern England . Royal Historical Society, London 1979, ISBN 0-901050-67-9 .
  2. ↑ a b Bethnal Green METB: Census Tables. In: A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth, 2009, accessed May 28, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV)