Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham

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The Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham 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 south of the former County of London .

history

The district emerged from the previously independent Civil parishes Lee and Lewisham. They were originally in the county of Kent and from 1855 belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 the parishes came to the new County of London, eleven years later they were combined with a small part of Camberwell to form a Metropolitan Borough.

When Greater London was founded in 1965, the London Borough of Lewisham was created from the merger of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Deptford and Lewisham .

statistics

The area was 7016 acres (28.39 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Former areas summarized:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 4,383 7.137 8,922 10,767 14,636 18,618 28,970 47,018 67,500 88,653

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 127,495 160,834 174.194 219.953 227,576 221,753

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 Lewisham 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)