Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham
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
- ^ 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 Lewisham 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)