Penge Urban District

Penge
Area
- 1911	770 acres (3.1 km2)
- 1961	769 acres (3.1 km2)
Population
- 1911	22,330
- 1961	25,743
Density
- 1911	29/acre
- 1961	33/acre
History
- Origin	Detached hamlet of Battersea
- Created	1866
- Abolished	1965
- Succeeded by	London Borough of Bromley
Status	Civil parish (1866—1965) Urban district (1900—1965)
Government	Penge Urban District Council (1900—1965)
- HQ	Town Hall, Anerley Road

Penge was a civil parish and a local government district located to the southeast of London, England. It included the settlements of Penge, Anerley and part of Crystal Palace. It was part of the London postal district, Metropolitan Police District and, from 1933, the London Passenger Transport Area.

Penge was a detached hamlet of the ancient parish of Battersea in the Brixton hundred of Surrey.^[1][2] Battersea became part of the area administered by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and the main part of the parish was grouped into the Wandsworth District whilst Penge became part of the Lewisham District. In 1866 it became a civil parish in its own right, forming part of the County of London from 1889.

In 1900 the local government arrangements in the County of London were reformed by the London Government Act 1899. Provision was made for Penge to be combined with either the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell or the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham in the County of London, or to form an urban district in the counties of Surrey or Kent. The County Borough of Croydon would have made it an exclave of the administrative county of Surrey, and in the event it was transferred to Kent as an urban district.^[3]

In 1965 the urban district was abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and its former area was transferred to Greater London, to be combined with that of other districts to form the present-day London Borough of Bromley.^[3]

References

v t e Local government districts abolished or transferred by the London Government Act 1963 London CC Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green Camberwell Chelsea Deptford Finsbury Fulham Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Islington Kensington Lambeth Lewisham Paddington Poplar Shoreditch Southwark St. Marylebone St. Pancras Stepney Stoke Newington Wandsworth Westminster Woolwich Constituent parts of Greater London Essex Barking Chigwell (part) Chingford Dagenham East Ham Hornchurch Ilford Leyton Romford Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford West Ham Hertfordshire Barnet East Barnet Middlesex, CC Acton Brentford and Chiswick Ealing Edmonton Enfield Feltham Finchley Friern Barnet Harrow Hayes and Harlington Hendon Heston and Isleworth Hornsey Ruislip-Northwood Southall Southgate Tottenham Twickenham Uxbridge Wembley Willesden Wood Green Yiewsley and West Drayton Kent Beckenham Bexley Bromley Chislehurst and Sidcup Crayford Erith Orpington Penge Surrey Barnes Beddington and Wallington Carshalton Coulsdon and Purley Croydon Kingston-upon-Thames Malden and Coombe Merton and Morden Mitcham Sutton and Cheam Surbiton Richmond Wimbledon Transfers Middlesex to Hertfordshire: Potters Bar Middlesex to Surrey: Staines Sunbury-on-Thames

Coordinates: 51°25′N 0°4′W / 51.417°N 0.067°W / 51.417; -0.067