Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

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Location of Chelsea in the former County of London

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

  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 Chelsea 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)