Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Location of Deptford in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford 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 southeast of the former County of London .

history

Deptford was originally a Civil parish in Kent . In 1730 it was separated into the parishes of St Paul Deptford and St Nicholas Deptford. From 1855 both parishes belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works , in 1889 they came to the new County of London. When there was another administrative reform in 1900, there were initially considerations to merge both parishes into a Metropolitan Borough. Eventually only St Paul Deptford received this status, while St Nicholas Deptford was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich .

At the foundation of Greater London in 1965, the Metropolitan Borough Deptford and was born from the merger Lewisham the London Borough of Lewisham .

statistics

The area was 1564 acres (6.33 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Civil parish:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 11,349 12,748 14,481 15,314 18,664 24,899 37,834 53,714 76,752 101.286

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 110,398 109,496 112,534 106,891 75,495 68,829

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 Deptford 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)