Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury

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Location of Finsbury in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury 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 north of the former County of London .

history

Finsbury emerged from several previously independent areas in the County of Middlesex . These were the civil parishes of Clerkenwell and St Luke's, the unincorporated area Charterhouse and part of the Holborn District. The latter was an administrative consortium of several small Civil parishes, of which Glasshouse Yard and St Sepulcher came to Finsbury. From 1855 onwards, all communities belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 they came to the new County of London, eleven years later they were combined into a Metropolitan Borough.

At the foundation of Greater London in 1965, the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury and arose from the merger Islington of London Borough of Islington .

statistics

The area was 586 acres (2.37 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Former areas summarized:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 55,515 68,811 86.223 100,521 112,938 125,360 129,031 124,766 119,382 111.225

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 101,463 87,923 75.995 69,888 35,370 32,887

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 Finsbury 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)