Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Admin. HQ: | Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street |
| Created: | 1900 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
| Successor: | London Borough of Wandsworth London Borough of Lambeth |
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The Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth was a metropolitan borough under the London County Council, from 1900 to 1965.
The borough was formed from five civil parishes: Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting Graveney and Wandsworth. Before 1899 these parishes, together with Battersea, had been administered by the Wandsworth District Board of Works.
When the metropolitan boroughs were replaced with larger London boroughs in 1965, this borough was split. The core area of Wandsworth (about 11 km²) became part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, along with the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, but the areas of Streatham and Clapham (totalling 4km²) became part of the London Borough of Lambeth.
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