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 in the western part of the former county of Middlesex.

History

The villages of Yiewsley and West Drayton were originally Civil parishes that belonged to the Uxbridge Rural District since 1875. In 1911, Yiewsley made ​​independently and obtained the status of Urban District. West Drayton was incorporated in 1929 after the Uxbridge Rural District was dissolved. 1930 was followed by the incorporation of Harmondsworth, which had previously belonged to the Staines Rural District. The total area of the Urban District grew by almost seven times.

With the establishment of the administrative region of Greater London in 1965 was created from the merger of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge and the Urban Districts Hayes and Harlington, Ruislip - Northwood and Yiewsley and West Drayton London Borough of Hillingdon.

Statistics

Until 1929 the area was 894 acres ( 3.62 km ² ), then 5276 acres ( 21.35 km ²). The census revealed the following population figures:

Civil parishes in England Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) Hayes and Harlington Urban District Ruislip-Northwood Urban District County of London Metropolitan Borough of Battersea Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea Metropolitan Borough of Deptford Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury Metropolitan Borough of Fulham Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead Metropolitan Borough of Holborn Metropolitan Borough of Islington Metropolitan Borough of Kensington Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham Metropolitan Borough of Paddington Metropolitan Borough of Poplar Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough of Southwark Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras Metropolitan Borough of Stepney Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough of Westminster Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich Essex Municipal Borough of Acton Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick Municipal Borough of Ealing Municipal Borough of Edmonton Municipal Borough of Enfield Feltham Urban District Friern Barnet Municipal Borough of Heston and Isleworth Municipal Borough of Hornsey Municipal Borough of Southall Municipal Borough of Southgate Municipal Borough of Tottenham Municipal Borough of Twickenham Municipal Borough of Wood Green
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