Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich

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Location of Woolwich in the former County of London

The Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich [ wʊlɪtʃ ] 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

The district emerged from the civil parishes Woolwich , Plumstead and Eltham . These parishes were originally in the county of Kent and from 1855 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 Borough of Greenwich and most of Woolwich became the London Borough of Greenwich . The district of North Woolwich north of the Thames was separated and has been part of the London Borough of Newham ever since .

statistics

The area was 8281 acres (33.51 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:

Former areas summarized:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Residents 12,619 20,983 21,277 22,411 30,787 43,177 69,064 67,880 74,963 98,966

Metropolitan Borough:

year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961
Residents 117.178 121,389 140.389 146.881 147.891 146.603

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 Battersea 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).