Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea
The Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea 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
Chelsea was originally a civil parish in the county of Middlesex . From 1855, the community belonged to the catchment area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 Chelsea 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 of Chelsea and Kensington merged to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea .
statistics
The area was 660 acres (2.67 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
Civil parish:
year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
Residents | 11,604 | 18,262 | 26,860 | 32,371 | 39,796 | 56,185 | 59,881 | 67,717 | 73.079 | 74,466 |
Metropolitan Borough:
year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
Residents | 73,842 | 66,385 | 63,697 | 59,031 | 50,957 | 47,256 |
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 Chelsea 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)