Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth
The Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth 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 southwest of the former County of London .
history
The district emerged from the previously independent Civil parishes Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting Graveney and Wandsworth. From 1855, the communities belonged to the catchment area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . In 1889 they came to the new County of London, eleven years later they were combined into a Metropolitan Borough.
When Greater London was founded in 1965, the metropolitan boroughs Battersea and Wandsworth merged to form the London Borough of Wandsworth . However, the districts of Clapham and Streatham were merged with the London Borough of Lambeth .
statistics
The area was 9110 acres (36.87 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
Former areas summarized:
| year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
| Residents | 14,283 | 17,963 | 22,726 | 27,779 | 33,238 | 40.204 | 50,803 | 71,044 | 103.172 | 156.942 |
Metropolitan Borough:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 231,922 | 311,360 | 328,307 | 353.110 | 330,493 | 347,442 |
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 Wandsworth 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)