Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead

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Location of Hampstead in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead 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-west of the former County of London .

history

Hampstead was originally a Civil parish in Middlesex County . From 1855, the community belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 Hampstead became part of the County of London, eleven years later it was converted into a Metropolitan Borough.

When Greater London was founded in 1965, the metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras became the London Borough of Camden .

statistics

The area was 2267 acres (9.17 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Civil parish:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 4,434 5,483 7,263 8,588 10.093 11,986 19,106 32,281 45,452 68,416

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 81,942 85,495 86,153 88,947 95.131 98,844

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 Hampstead 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)