METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF HOLBORN

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

Coat of Arms

Area and population

References

See also

Boundaries

The borough was formed from the civil parishes of St Andrew Holborn above the Bars, St George the Martyr, St Giles in the Fields, and St George Bloomsbury with the Liberty of Saffron Hill plus two of the Inns of Court.

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 names 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 - 1.7 km²). 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

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

See also

★ London Government Act 1899

★ Metropolis Management Act 1855