Horsleydown

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Horsleydown
Geography
Status	Parish
1851 area	94 acres
1901 area	70 acres
History
Abolished	1904
Succeeded by	Bermondsey
Demography
1851 population - 1851 density	11,360 120/acre
1901 population - 1901 density	7,769 111/acre

Southwark St. John Horsleydown was a small parish on the south bank of the River Thames in London, opposite the Tower of London.^[1] The name is no longer used. The parish was created by splitting St Olave's parish in 1640. In the metropolitan re-organisation of 1855 it joined a District Board of Works with St Olave's and St Thomas's sending a joint representative to the Metropolitan Board of Works and remained as such after the 1889 creation of the London County Council. The DBW itself became a ' Civil Parish' in 1899 but shortly after became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey in 1900. As a religious parish (centred on the church of St John Horsleydown) it was amalgamated into the St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey parish in 1904. In 1941 the church was destroyed by enemy action. Since 1965 it has formed part of the London Borough of Southwark.

It had a population, recorded in the census, of:

Civil parish of St John Horsleydown 1801-1901

Year[2]	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901
Population	8,892	8,370	9,163	9,871	10,665	11,360	11,393	10,500	8,928	9,812	7,769

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