Metropolitan Borough of Battersea

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Location of Battersea in the former County of London
Battersea's coat of arms on Chelsea Bridge

The Metropolitan Borough of Battersea 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 west of the former County of London .

history

Battersea was originally a Civil parish in the county of Surrey , which also included the Penge exclave . From 1855 the community belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works , in 1866 Penge made himself independent. In 1889 Battersea became part of the new County of London, and was converted into a Metropolitan Borough eleven years later.

When the Greater London administrative region was founded in 1965, the London Borough of Wandsworth was formed from the merger of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Wandsworth and Battersea .

statistics

The area was 2164 acres (8.76 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Civil parish:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 3,365 4,409 4,764 5,311 6,617 10,560 19,600 54.016 107,262 150,558

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 168.907 167,743 167,739 159,552 117,140 105,870

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 Battersea 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)