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