| Stoke Newington St Mary |
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| Geography | |
| Status | Civil parish |
| 1881 area | 638 acres (2.58 km2) |
| 1901 area | 864 acres (3.50 km2) |
| 1961 area | 865 acres (3.50 km2) |
| HQ | 126, Church Street, Stoke Newington |
| History | |
| Origin | Ancient parish |
| Abolished | 1965 |
| Succeeded by | Coterminous with Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington from 1900 Replaced by London Borough of Hackney |
| Demography | |
|---|---|
| 1881 population - 1881 density |
22,781 36/acre |
| 1901 population - 1901 density |
51,247 59/acre |
| 1961 population - 1961 density |
52,301 60/acre |
| Politics | |
| Governance | Vestry of the Parish of Stoke Newington (1894—1900) |
Stoke Newington was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It was both a civil parish, used for administrative purposes, and an ecclesiastical parish of the Church of England.
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The vestry of the civil parish was entrusted with various administrative functions from the 17th century. In 1837 it became a part of the Poor Law Union of Hackney. In 1855 the parish was included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Together with Hackney, Stoke Newington formed the Hackney District of the Metropolis. In 1889 the district was included in the new County of London. It was dissolved in 1894 with Hackney and Stoke Newington vestries forming separate local authorities. In 1900 the civil vestries were dissolved, and the Stoke Newington parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington. At the same time, Stoke Newington absorbed most of the parish and urban district of South Hornsey, which had been an exclave of Middlesex in the County of London. The civil parish and metropolitan borough were abolished in 1965 and used to form part of the London Borough of Hackney.
The ancient parish, dedicated to St Mary, was in the Diocese of London. Parish was sometimes called Newington Canonicorum.[1]
As the population increased the parish was divided:
Many of the churches were severely damaged by bombs during World War II. Although both St Mary's and St Matthias were eventually restored, the extent of the damage, combined with a decrease in the population of the area, led to a number of these parishes being combined in the 20th century. For instance, in 1951 St Faith and St Matthias parishes were merged. in 1956 they were again merged with All Saints to form Stoke Newington, St Faith with St Matthias and All Saints In 1974 the name of the combined parish was shortened to Stoke Newington, St Matthias.
As of June 2006 the parishes are known by the following names:
The manor of the parish was originally called Nentone, and later took the name Stoke Newington. The manor is co-extensive with the parish, and was the property of Prebendary of Newington, which is one of the prebends of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the gift of the Bishop of London. This right is thought to have existed back to the time of Edward the Confessor.[1]