Metropolitan Borough of Poplar

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Location of Poplar in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Poplar 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 east of the former County of London .

history

The district emerged from the Civil parishes Bow, Bromley and Poplar, which were originally in the county of Middlesex and were combined in the Poplar District, an administrative community. From 1855, the communities belonged to the catchment area of ​​the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 they came to the County of London, eleven years later they were merged to form a Metropolitan Borough.

When Greater London was founded in 1965, the metropolitan boroughs Bethnal Green , Poplar and Stepney merged to form the London Borough of Tower Hamlets .

statistics

The area was 2348 acres (9.50 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Former areas summarized:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 8,278 13,548 18,932 25,066 31,122 47,162 79.196 116,376 156,510 166,748

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 168,822 162,442 162,578 155.089 73,579 66,604

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 Poplar 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)