Metropolitan Borough of Battersea
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
- ^ 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 Battersea 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)