Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith

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Location of Hammersmith in the former County of London

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

  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 Hammersmith 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)