Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District
The Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District was a district in the metropolitan area of the British capital, London . It existed from 1911 to 1965 and was located in the west of the former county of Middlesex .
history
The villages of Yiewsley and West Drayton were originally Civil parishes that had been part of the Uxbridge Rural District since 1875 . In 1911, Yiewsley became self-employed and received the status of an Urban District . West Drayton was incorporated in 1929 after the Uxbridge Rural District was dissolved. In 1930 the incorporation of Harmondsworth followed, which had previously belonged to the Staines Rural District . Overall, the area of the Urban District grew almost sevenfold.
When the Greater London administrative region was founded in 1965, the London Borough of Hillingdon was formed from the merger of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge and the Urban Districts Hayes and Harlington , Ruislip-Northwood and Yiewsley and West Drayton .
statistics
Until 1929 the area was 894 acres (3.62 km²), then 5276 acres (21.35 km²). The censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 |
| Residents | 3.213 | 4,315 | 4,843 | 13,066 | 20,468 | 23,723 |
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 .
- ^ Yiewsley and West Drayton UD: Census Tables. In: A vision of Britain through time. University of Portsmouth, 2009, accessed June 30, 2012 .