Metropolitan Borough of Holborn

The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a district in the metropolitan area of the British capital London, with the status of a metropolitan borough. It existed from 1900 to 1965 and was at the center of the former county of County of London.

History

Holborn originated from several previously separate areas in the county of Middlesex. These were the civil parish St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury and Holborn District. The latter was an administrative community of the civil parish St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr, and the unincorporated areas of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place. Added to this were the Lincoln 's Inn and Staple Inn. All territories belonged from 1855 to the catchment area of the administration union Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1889, she came to the new County of London, eleven years later, they were combined into one metropolitan borough.

At the foundation of Greater London in 1965 arose from the merger of the Metropolitan Boroughs Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras the London Borough of Camden.

Statistics

The area was 407 acres (1.65 km ² ), thus Holborn was the smallest of all the Metropolitan Boroughs. The census revealed the following population figures:

Earlier areas summarized:

Metropolitan Borough: