Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich
The Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich 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
The district emerged from the previously independent Civil parishes Charlton-next-Woolwich , Deptford St Nicholas, Greenwich and Kidbrooke. These parishes were originally in the county of Kent and from 1855 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.
When Greater London was founded in 1965, the merger of Greenwich and most of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich became the London Borough of Greenwich .
statistics
The area was 3864 acres (15.64 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
Former areas summarized:
| year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
| Residents | 22,077 | 25,303 | 28,748 | 33,374 | 39,800 | 47,377 | 57,417 | 56,450 | 65,411 | 78.167 |
Metropolitan Borough:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 95,780 | 95,968 | 100,450 | 100,924 | 89,846 | 85,546 |
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 Greenwich 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)