Metropolitan Borough of Stepney

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Location of Stepney in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney 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

Stepney emerged from several previously independent areas in the county of Middlesex . These were the Civil parishes Mile End Old Town and St George in the East as well as the Limehouse District and the Whitechapel District. The districts were administrative communities of the following civil parishes and non-parish areas:

  • Limehouse District: Limehouse, Ratcliff, Shadwell, Wapping
  • Whitechapel District : Mile End New Town, Liberty of Norton Folgate, Old Artillery Ground, St Botolph without Aldgate, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Liberties of the Tower

All areas were originally in the county of Middlesex and from 1855 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 combined into 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 1771 acres (7.17 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Former areas summarized:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 113.281 131.606 153,749 175.088 203,802 238.910 257.497 275,467 282,676 285.225

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 298,600 279,804 249,657 225,238 98,858 92,000

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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 Stepney 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)