Metropolitan Borough of Hackney

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Location of Hackney in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney 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 northeast of the former County of London .

history

Hackney was originally a Civil parish in Middlesex County . From 1855, the community belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works . Hackney became part of the County of London in 1889, and was converted into a Metropolitan Borough eleven years later. This resulted in minor border adjustments with the surrounding districts of Stoke Newington , Shoreditch and Bethnal Green . Another border adjustment took place in 1908 with Tottenham .

When Greater London was founded in 1965, the London Borough of Hackney was formed from the merger of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington .

statistics

The area was 3294 acres (13.33 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Civil parish:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 12,730 16,771 22,494 31,047 37,771 53,589 76,687 115.110 163,681 198,606

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 219.272 222,533 222.142 215.333 171,342 164,766

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. ^ TFT Baker: Hackney: Introduction. In: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney. British History Online, 1995, accessed May 28, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b Hackney MetB: Census Tables. In: A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth, 2009, accessed May 28, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV)