Municipal Borough of Twickenham
The Municipal Borough of Twickenham 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 south of the former county of Middlesex .
history
Twickenham was originally a Civil parish in the Harde (hundred) Isleworth. 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 the status of a Municipal Borough in 1926 . In 1934, the previously independent urban districts of Hampton, Hampton Wick and Teddington merged with Twickenham, which almost tripled the area.
When the Greater London administrative region was founded in 1965, the merger of the Municipal Boroughs of Barnes , Richmond (both in Surrey ) and Twickenham became the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames .
statistics
By 1934 the area was 2421 acres (9.80 km²), then 7014 acres (28.38 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 20,991 | 29,367 | 34,790 | 39.906 | 105,663 | 100,971 |
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 .
- ^ Twickenham UD / MB: Census Tables. In: A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth, 2009, accessed May 28, 2011 .