Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell
The Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell 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 south of the former County of London .
history
Camberwell was originally a Civil parish in Surrey . From 1855, the community belonged to the catchment area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 Camberwell came to the new County of London, eleven years later the conversion into a Metropolitan Borough followed.
At the foundation of Greater London in 1965, the Metropolitan Borough was created from the merger Bermondsey , Camberwell and Southwark the London Borough of Southwark .
statistics
The area was 4482 acres (18.14 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
Civil parish:
year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
Residents | 7,059 | 11,309 | 17,876 | 28,231 | 38,868 | 54,667 | 71,488 | 111,306 | 186,593 | 235.344 |
Metropolitan Borough:
year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
Residents | 259,339 | 261,328 | 267.198 | 251.294 | 179,777 | 175,304 |
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 Camberwell 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)