Municipal Borough of Enfield
The Municipal Borough of Enfield was a district in the metropolitan area of the British capital London . It existed from 1850 to 1965 under different names and was located in the northeast of the former county of Middlesex .
history
Enfield was originally a Civil parish in the Harde (hundred) Edmonton. In 1850 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 1955 the status of a Municipal Borough .
When the Greater London administrative region was founded in 1965, the London Borough of Enfield was formed from the merger of the Municipal Boroughs of Edmonton , Enfield and Southgate .
statistics
The area was 12,400 acres (50.18 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 42,738 | 56,338 | 60,650 | 67,874 | 110,465 | 109,542 |
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 .
- ↑ Enfield UD / MB: Census Tables. In: A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth, 2009, accessed May 28, 2011 .