Metropolitan Borough of Holborn

Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
Holborn
Motto: Multi Pertransibunt et Augebitur Scientia
(Many shall pass through and learning shall be increased)
Metropolitan Borough shown within the County of London
Holborn within the County of London
Geography
Status Metropolitan borough
1911 area 405 acres (1.64 km2)
1931 area 406 acres (1.64 km2)
1961 area 407 acres (1.65 km2)
HQ High Holborn
History
Created 1900
Abolished 1965
Succeeded by London Borough of Camden
Demography
1911 population
- 1911 density
49,357
121/acre
1931 population
- 1931 density
38,860
96/acre
1961 population
- 1961 density
22,008
54/acre
Politics
Governance Holborn Borough Council
The arms granted in 1906
Coat of arms of the borough council

The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras and the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead to form the London Borough of Camden.

Contents

Boundaries

The borough was formed from the following civil parishes and places:

  • St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr (Holborn District Board of Works)
  • St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (St Giles District Board of Works)
  • The Liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place (Holborn District Board of Works)
  • two of the Inns of Court: Lincoln's Inn and Staple Inn

Coat of arms

St Giles, St George and St Andrew were depicted on the borough seal. The several constituent parishes were illustrated in the arms granted to Holborn in 1906, while the supporters, the Lion and the Griffin are from the arms of Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn (Inns of Court).

Several of the street name signs in the British Museum/Senate House area still bear the "Borough of Holborn" area designation.

Holborn Town Hall still exists, on High Holborn.

Area and population

Holborn was the smallest of the twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, with an area of between 405 and 407 acres (1.6 km2). Therefore it was even smaller than the City of London. It also had the smallest population of any of the boroughs throughout its existence. The populations recorded in National Censuses were:

Constituent Civil Parishes 1801-1899

Year[1] 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
Population 67,103 80,642 88,172 90,670 93,767 95,726 94,074 93,513 78,668 70,938

Metropolitan Borough 1900-1961

Year[2] 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961
Population 59,405 49,357 43,192 38,860 [3] 24,810 22,008

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV); Census tables for Holborn Metropolitan Borough
  2. ^ Holborn MetB: Census Tables at Vision of Britain accessed 14 Dec 2006
  3. ^ The census was suspended for World War II

Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°07′22″W / 51.5171°N 0.1228°W / 51.5171; -0.1228


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