Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Admin. HQ: | High Holborn |
| Created: | 1900 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
| Successor: | London Borough of Camden |
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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.
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.
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 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 New Oxford Street.
[edit] Statistics
Holborn was the smallest of the twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, with an area of between 405 and 407 statute acres (1.6 - 1.7 square kilometres). It also had the smallest population of any of the boroughs throughout its existence. The population of the borough, as recorded at the census, was:
- 1801: 67,103
- 1811: 80,642
- 1821: 88,172
- 1831: 90,670
- 1841: 93,767
- 1851: 95,726
- 1861: 94,074
- 1871: 93,513
- 1881: 78,668
- 1891: 70,938
- 1901: 59,405
- 1911: 49,357
- 1921: 43,192
- 1931: 38,860
- 1951: 24,810
- 1961: 22,008
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