Municipal Borough of Acton
The Municipal Borough of Acton was a district in the metropolitan area of the British capital London . It existed from 1868 to 1965 under different names and was located in the center of the former county of Middlesex .
history
Acton was originally a Civil parish in the Harde (hundred) Ossulstone. In 1868 a local board of health was created with competencies in the infrastructure sector . From this, an urban sanitary district was created in 1875 with expanded powers. In 1894 the health district was reconstituted as the Urban District . This in turn received in 1921 the status of a Municipal Borough .
When the Greater London Administrative Region was founded in 1965, the London Borough of Ealing was formed from the merger of the Municipal Boroughs Acton, Ealing and Southall .
statistics
The area was 2320 acres (9.39 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 37,744 | 57,497 | 61,299 | 70,510 | 67,471 | 65,586 |
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 .
- ↑ Acton UD / MB: Census Tables. In: A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth, 2009, accessed May 28, 2011 .