Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn 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 in the center of the former County of London .
history
Holborn emerged from several previously independent areas in the County of Middlesex . These were the Civil parish St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury and the Holborn District. The latter was an administrative association of the Civil parish St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr and the unincorporated areas of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place. Then there were the Lincoln's Inn and the Staple Inn . From 1855 all areas 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 metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead , Holborn and St Pancras merged to form the London Borough of Camden .
statistics
The area was 407 acres (1.65 km²), making Holborn the smallest of all metropolitan boroughs. The censuses showed the following population figures:
Former areas summarized:
| year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
| Residents | 67.103 | 80,642 | 88.172 | 90,670 | 93,767 | 95,726 | 94,074 | 93,513 | 78,668 | 70,938 |
Metropolitan Borough:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 59,405 | 49,357 | 43.192 | 38,860 | 24,810 | 22.008 |
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 Holborn 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)