Whitechapel District (Metropolis)

The Whitechapel District was from 1855 to 1900 a district in Middlesex, or since 1889 in the County of London. It was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 from parts of the Tower Division in Middlesex and went in 1900 to the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

In 1895 lived on an area of 1.37 km ², a total of 73,000 people. With a population density of 53.000/km ² was the district at that time the most densely populated of London, making it one of the most densely populated in the world. Approximately one quarter of this population consisted of immigrants, of which a large proportion came from Russia and Poland. Both birth as well as death rates were significantly higher than the values ​​for the rest of London.

Whitechapel District included parts of the former Tower Division and consisted of the Parishes:

  • Mile End New Town
  • Liberty of Norton Folgate
  • Old Artillery Ground
  • St Botolph without Aldgate
  • Spitalfields
  • Whitechapel (district )
  • Liberties of the Tower

He thus consisted of the core areas of London's East End, the terms are often used interchangeably in the historic context.

The government formed eleven elected vestrymen in Whitechapel Board of Works.

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  • Former management unit in London
  • London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Liberties of the Tower of London
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