Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch

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Location of Shoreditch in the former County of London

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

  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 Shoreditch 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)