Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith
The Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith 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
The district emerged from the previously independent Civil parish Hammersmith , which had been separated from Fulham in 1834 . The community was in the county of Middlesex and belonged from 1855 to the catchment area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 Hammersmith became part of the County of London, eleven years later it was converted into a Metropolitan Borough.
At the foundation of Greater London the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and emerged in 1965 from the merger Fulham the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham .
statistics
The area was 2288 acres (9.26 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
Civil parish:
year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
Residents | 5,600 | 7,393 | 8,809 | 10,222 | 13,453 | 17,760 | 24,519 | 42,691 | 71,939 | 97.239 |
Metropolitan Borough:
year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
Residents | 112,239 | 121,521 | 130.295 | 135,523 | 119,367 | 110,333 |
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 Hammersmith 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)