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 various names and was in the south of the former county of Middlesex.

History

Twickenham was originally a civil parish in the Harde ( hundred ) Isleworth. 1868, a local health council (local board of health ) was created with competencies in infrastructure. That was in 1875 an urban health district ( urban sanitary district ) with extended powers. 1894 reconstituted the health district as Urban District. This, in turn, received in 1926 the status of a municipal borough. 1934 merged the formerly independent urban districts Hampton, Hampton Wick and Teddington Twickenham with, thus increasing the area almost tripled.

With the establishment of the administrative region of Greater London in 1965 arose from the merger of the Municipal Boroughs Barnes, Richmond (both located in Surrey ) and Twickenham the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Statistics

By the year 1934, the area was 2421 acres (9.80 km ²), then 7014 acres ( 28.38 km ²). The census revealed the following population figures:

Civil parishes in England Hundred (county division) Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) 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 Hayes and Harlington Urban District Municipal Borough of Heston and Isleworth Municipal Borough of Hornsey Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Municipal Borough of Southall Municipal Borough of Southgate Municipal Borough of Tottenham Municipal Borough of Uxbridge Municipal Borough of Wood Green Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District
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