Metropolitan Borough of Westminster

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Location of Westminster in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Westminster was a district in the metropolitan area of ​​the British capital London with the status of a Metropolitan Borough and a City . It existed from 1900 to 1965 and was in the center of the former County of London .

history

Westminster emerged from several previously independent areas in the county of Middlesex . These were the civil parishes of St George Hanover Square and St Martin in the Fields, the unincorporated area of ​​Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, and the Strand District and Westminster District. The districts were administrative communities of the following civil parishes and non-parish areas:

  • Strand District: Liberty of the Rolls, St Anne Within the Liberty of Westminster, St Clement Danes, St Mary le Strand , St Paul Covent Garden, Precinct of the Savoy
  • Westminster District: Westminster St Margaret, Westminster St John

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. Westminster was also granted city status in 1900. When Greater London was founded in 1965, the metropolitan boroughs of Paddington and St Marylebone were merged with the City of Westminster.

statistics

The area was 2505 acres (10.14 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Former areas summarized:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 160,759 168,657 189,543 209.229 229.473 244,531 257.232 248.714 229.784 198,871

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 183.011 160.261 141,578 129,579 99,048 85,735

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 Westminster 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)