Municipal Borough of Southall
The Municipal Borough of Southall was a district in the metropolitan area of the British capital London . It existed from 1891 to 1965 under different names and was located in the center of the former county of Middlesex .
history
Southall Norwood was originally a Civil parish in the Harde (hundred) Elthorne. In 1891, an urban sanitary district was created with extended powers in the area of infrastructure. In 1894 the health district was reconstituted as the Urban District . This in turn received the status of a Municipal Borough in 1936 . In the same year it was renamed Southall.
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 2608 acres (10.55 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 13,200 | 26,323 | 30,287 | 38,940 | 55,896 | 52,983 |
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 .
- ^ Southall UD / MB: Census Tables. In: A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth, 2009, accessed May 28, 2011 .