Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch 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
Shoreditch was originally a Civil parish in Middlesex . From 1855, the community belonged to the catchment area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 Shoreditch became part of the County of London, and was converted into a Metropolitan Borough eleven years later.
When Greater London was founded in 1965, the London Borough of Hackney was formed from the merger of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hackney , Shoreditch and Stoke Newington .
statistics
The area was 659 acres (2.67 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
Civil parish:
year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
Residents | 34,766 | 43,930 | 52,966 | 68,564 | 83,432 | 109.257 | 129,364 | 127.164 | 126,591 | 124.009 |
Metropolitan Borough:
year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
Residents | 118,668 | 111,390 | 104,248 | 97.042 | 44,871 | 40,455 |
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 Shoreditch 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)