Tower Division
The Tower Division, commonly known as Tower Hamlets, was a British administrative unit. The Liberty was in the Hundred of Ossulstone in the Ancient County of Middlesex. Originally a rural area developed here in the 19th century, the East End of London. The residents were direct subjects of the constable of the Tower of the Tower of London. The Liberty existed from the early 18th century to 1889. She was about 30 km ² and in 1881 had more than one million inhabitants.
In 1832 the Tower Division formed a special constituency for the House of Commons. This was called Tower Hamlets and put two deputies. In 1889 the Tower Division became part of the County of London. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets named after the Liberty since 1965.
1829 included the following villages and communities to Tower Division:
- The parish of St Mary, Whitechapel
- The parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields
- The parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch
- The liberty of Norton Folgate
- The parish of St John, Hackney
- The parish of St Matthew, Bethnal Green ( London)
- The Hamlet of Mile End Old Town
- The Hamlet of Mile End New Town
- The parish of St Mary, Stratford Bow
- The parish of Bromley St Leonard
- The parish of All Saints, Poplar
- The parish of St Anne, Limehouse
- The hamlet of Ratcliff
- The parish of St Paul, Shadwell
- The parish of St John, Wapping
- The liberty of East Smithfield
- The precinct of St Katherine
- The liberty of His Majesty's Tower of London Consisting of: The liberty of the Old Artillery Ground
- The parish of Trinity, Minories
- The Old Tower precinct
- The precinct of The Tower Within
- The precinct of the Well Close