Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey

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Location of Bermondsey in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey 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 in the center of the former County of London .

history

The district emerged from the Civil parishes Bermondsey and Rotherhithe and from the St Olave District. The latter was an administrative consortium of the small Civil parishes Southwark St John Horsleydown, Southwark St Olave and Southwark St Thomas. All parishes were originally in the county of Surrey and from 1855 belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 they came to the County of London, eleven years later they were combined into a Metropolitan Borough.

At the foundation of Greater London in 1965, the Metropolitan Borough Bermondsey, formed from the merger Camberwell and Southwark the London Borough of Southwark .

statistics

The area was 1504 acres (6.09 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Former areas summarized:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 46.281 49,397 57,148 62,637 68,701 85,308 101,913 122,398 134,632 136,660

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 130,760 125.903 119,452 111,542 60,638 51,860

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 Bermondsey 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)