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  HAMPSTEAD - LoveToKnow Article on HAMPSTEAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Edgware Road bounds Hampstead on the west; and the borough is intersected, parallel to this thoroughfare, by Finchley Road, and by Haverstock Hill, which, continued under the names of Rosslyn Hill, High Street, Heath Street, and North End, crosses the Heath for which Hampstead is chiefly celebrated.
Hampstead has numerous charitable institutions, amongst which are the North London consumptive hospital, the Orphan Working School, Haverstock Hill (1758), the general hospital and the north-western fever hospital.
The borough council consists of a mayor, 7 aldermen and 42 councillors.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HAMPSTEAD.htm   (711 words)

  
 Hampstead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hampstead became part of the County of London in 1888 and in 1899 the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead was formed.
In 1965 the metropolitan borough was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn and the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras to form the modern-day London Borough of Camden.
Hampstead is part of the Hampstead and Highgate constituency and since 1992 the member of parliament has been the former actress Glenda Jackson of the Labour Party.
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 1st Metropolitan Mortgage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1899 until in 1965 it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster to form the London Borough of Westminster.
The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras was a metropolitan borough under London County Council between 1899 and 1965, when it was amalgated with the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead and the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn to form the London Borough of Camden.
The borough was formed on April 1, 1974 as a merger of the former county borough of St Helens, along with the urban districts of Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford, and parts of Billinge-and-Winstanley and Ashton-in-Makerfield urban districts, along with part of Whiston Rural District.
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 London Boroughs - Removal companies - Removals London - Free moving quotes by removal companies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger of the Middlesex borough of Twickenham with the Surrey boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and Barnes.
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger of the Kent boroughs of Bexley, and Erith and the Crayford urban district, and half of Chislehurst and Sidcup urban district.
Havering is bordered to the south by the Thames and the London Borough of Bexley, to the west by the London Borough of Redbridge and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, to the north with Essex and the east with Thurrock.
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 PADDINGTON (ENGLAND) - LoveToKnow Article on PADDINGTON (ENGLAND)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
PADDINGTON, a north-western metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded E. by Hampstead and Marylebone, S. by the city of Westminster, and W. by Kensington, and extending N. to the boundary of the county of London.
In the borough are the Paddington and the Queen's Park technical institutes; St. Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, with medical school; and Paddington Green children's hospital.
The borough council consists of a mayor, 10 aldermen and 60 councillors.
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 CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-LONDON, COUNTY OF (OBSOLETE)
The Borough was formed by the amalgamation of the Parishes of Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, St. Olave, St. John Horselydown and St. Thomas Southwark, of which the first three are represented in the Arms.
The supporters denote the two inns of court in the Borough, the lion being that of the De Lacys, Earls of Lincoln, whose London house became Lincoln's Inn, and the griffin being from the arms of Gray's Inn.
The Borough was formed by the amalgamation of the Parishes of St. Saviour (formerly St. Mary Overy), St. Mary Newington, St. George the Martyr and Christ Church.
www.civicheraldry.co.uk /lcc.html   (3371 words)

  
 GENUKI: Middlesex, Hampstead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Anglican churches in Hampstead in 1903 - An expanded version of the 1903 list of parishes, showing dates of creation of parishes, and the name used for the records in the London Metropolitan Archives, and elsewhere.
It is comprised within the Hampstead superintendent registry, and the Bloomsbury new County Court district.
Its summit commands a view of the metropolis, with the hills of Hampstead and Highgate towards the N., and at its base is the Shakspeare oak, planted in 1864.
homepages.gold.ac.uk /genuki/MDX/Hampstead   (736 words)

  
 Hampstead Museum/Burgh House Welcome Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hampstead remained a peaceful rural community until the end of the seventeenth century.
Hampstead also contained a fever hospital, a TB hospital (Mount Vernon) and homes for the orphan daughters of Crimean War servicemen.
In 1885, Hampstead was made a Parliamentary Borough and in 1888 it became part of London.
www.burghhouse.org.uk /pages/hampsteadhistory.html   (1051 words)

  
 West Hampstead London -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
HAMPSTEAD, a north-western metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded E. by St Pancras and S. by St Marylebone, and extending N. and W. to the boundary of the county of London.
The Edgware Road bounds Hampstead on the west; and the borough is intersected, parallel to this...
Hampstead Heath is duly famous, and is one of the largest pieces of inner city partland of any capital in the world (indeed London...
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 ST PANCRAS - LoveToKnow Article on ST PANCRAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
, a northern metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded E. by Islington, S.E. by Finsbury, S. by Holborn, and W. by St Marylebone and Hampstead, and extend- ing N. to the boundary of the county of London.
Besides the greater part of Parliament Hill (267 acres), purchased for the public use in 1886, the borough includes a small part of Regents Park (mainly in the borough of St Marylebone) and Waterlow Park (29 acres) on the slope of Highgate Hill.
The borough council consists of a mayor, io aldermen and 6o councillors.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_PANCRAS.htm   (680 words)

  
 Old Hampstead: history on hampstead-online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there was a steady growth in the villages of Kilburn, Hampstead and Highgate, evidenced by the increase of alehouses and of christenings in the parish records.
Hampstead was heavily bombed during the war due to the railway lines running through the area, and the anti-aircraft batteries on Hampstead Heath.
Hampstead is popular with film-makers - scenes of 'Cavanagh QC' have been shot in Hampstead High St, and the Police Station has been used in '102 Dalmatians', starring Glenn Close.
www.hampstead-online.co.uk /oldhampstead.htm   (1368 words)

  
 Victorian London - Police and Policing - Metropolitan Police - 'The Police of London' [article from the Quarterly ...
The constables, head boroughs, and beadles of the separate parishes of the metropolis, were useless for such a purpose.
In 1868, there were taken up by the metropolitan police 2430 disorderly characters (more or less under the influence of drink); 1665 disorderly prostitutes (the same); 10,463 drunk and disorderly persons, of whom 5079 were women; and 9169 helplessly drunk, of whom 4336 were women.
The roughs, thieves, and criminal classes generally, of course detested the unusual supervision to which they became subjected, and naturally regarded the New Police as their enemies; for it was the express object of the institution of the force, to protect the honest part of society against their attacks and depredations.
www.victorianlondon.org /police/policeoflondon.htm   (14244 words)

  
 LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN FACTS AND INFORMATION
The London Borough of Camden is an inner-London_borough created in 1965 to replace the metropolitan_boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, St Pancras.
Hampstead & Highgate in the north and Holborn & St. Pancras in the south.
The eastern part of Regent's_Park is in the borough.
www.flowergods.com /London_Borough_of_Camden   (149 words)

  
 LONDON BOROUGH FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
They had wider authority than the inner London metropolitan boroughs and neighbouring urban_districts and municipal_boroughs which they mostly replaced, but less power than the three county_boroughs of Croydon, West Ham and East Ham, which ceased to exist at the same time.
However on on 1 April 1986, the GLC was abolished, the London boroughs inherited most of its powers and became in effect unitary authorities (combining both county and borough functions).
Municipal_Borough_of_Edmonton, Municipal_Borough_of_Enfield, Municipal Borough of Southgate from Middlesex
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 Camden Theatre / Camden Hippodrome / Royal Camden / Music Machine / Camden Palace, Camden High Street and Crowndale ...
At the junction of Hampstead Road with Seymour Street is Crowndale Road, on the north side of which is the Working Men's College, founded by Frederick Denison Maurice in 1854.
It was erected by the Metropolitan Association for improving the Dwellings of the Industrial Classes founded in 1841.
The metropolitan borough of St Pancras extends from Islington to Marylebone east to west, and from Holborn to Hampstead and Hornsey south to north.
www.arthurlloyd.co.uk /CamdenTheatre.htm   (1411 words)

  
 Contents of Published Volumes
These two parishes lay in the Holborn division of Ossulstone hundred, and before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington, with a total population of over 200,000.
Hampstead town encroached upon the heath, which was waste of the medieval manor.
Hampstead retains a compact centre including 18th-century buildings, with large later houses in the avenues to the south and west.
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 HAMPSTEAD - Online Information article about HAMPSTEAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
Heath Street, and North End, crosses the Heath for which Hampstead is chiefly celebrated.
The Heath is continued eastward in Parliament Hill (borough of St Pancras), acquired for the public in 1890; and westward outside the county boundary in Golders Hill, owned by Sir See also:
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 Articles - County of London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The county was abolished in 1965 and was replaced by the much larger Greater London, which took in nearly all of Middlesex, along with much of Surrey, Kent, Essex and part of Hertfordshire.
Eleven years after its foundation, in 1899, the County of London was divided into 28 metropolitan boroughs, which replaced the ancient parishes and vestries as the second tier of local government.
When the County of London was abolished in 1965 these metropolition boroughs were merged to form 12 London boroughs.
www.wathcesa.com /articles/County_of_London   (279 words)

  
 Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1899 and 1965, when it was amalgated with the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead and the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn to form the London Borough of Camden.
It included Tottenham Court Road, Camden Town, St Pancras, Kings Cross, Somers Town, Kentish Town, Euston, and part of Regent's Park.
There are still a few street names signs with "Borough of St Pancras" on them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_St_Pancras   (114 words)

  
 The Metropolitan Asylums Board
They eventually identified three sites — at Hampstead in the north-west, Homerton in the north-east, and Stockwell in the south-west — on each of which it was intended to build a 200-bed fever hospital and 100-bed smallpox hospital.
Hampstead resumed operation as a smallpox hospital and its imbecile children moved to temporary premises until the new children's asylum at Darenth was finished.
In January 1879, Sir Rowland Hill and other Hampstead residents living near the Hampstead Hospital were granted a legal injunction against the MAB who were required to "stop carrying on the hospital so as to cause a nuisance".
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 Hampstead Heath Open Day
Hampstead Heath is hosting its third annual Open Day on Sunday, 14 July and the Corporation of London is inviting all Heath users and local residents to join in the festivities.
Paul Maskell, Hampstead Heath Leisure Manager, said: “The Open Day is a great opportunity for the Corporation of London to provide fun and entertainment for the residents of London at one of the world’s greatest open spaces.
To celebrate the Baton arriving in the Borough of Camden, the Corporation of London, Camden Council and English Heritage have joined forces to organise a celebration for local residents and visitors to the Heath.
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk /Corporation/media_centre/files_archive/148_02.htm   (565 words)

  
 Articles - Metropolitan Borough of Paddington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Metropolitan Borough of Paddington was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1899 and 1965, when it was merged into the London Borough of Westminster.
It was that part of the London Borough of Westminster west of Edgware Road and Maida Vale, and north of Bayswater Road.
To the south it bordered the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster, to the east, the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone.
lastring.com /articles/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Paddington?...   (140 words)

  
 Books Online : UK
A History of the County of Essex: Volume IX - The Borough of Colchester - The volume, the first full-scale, comprehensive and scholarly history of the ancient borough of Colchester to be published, describes the life of the oldest and for long the largest town in Essex from the Iron Age to 1990.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume IX - Hampstead, Paddington - These two parishes lay in the Holborn division of Ossulstone hundred, and before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington, with a total population of over 200,000.
A History of the County of Warwick: Volume VIII - The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick - An account of the topography, economy, architecture and political and religious life of Coventry and the Borough of Warwick.
www.genealogysearch.org /free/buki.html   (3063 words)

  
 VCH Middlesex IX, 0197227724, £45.00/$90.00, 322pp, 1989
The volume is the second to cover parts of Middlesex which lay from 1889 until 1965 within the administrative county of London, and contains histories of the parishes of Hampstead and Paddington.
Before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington, with a total population of over 200,000.
Hampstead rose northward from Chalk Farm to the heath and Finchley and, less steeply, north-eastward from Kilburn High Road.
www.boydell.co.uk /97227724.HTM   (487 words)

  
 London_borough   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The present boroughs came into existence on 1 April 1965 with the creation of the Greater London Council (GLC).
They had wider authority than the inner London metropolitan boroughs and neighbouring municipal boroughs which they mostly replaced, but less power than the three county boroughs of Croydon, West Ham and East Ham, which ceased to exist at the same time.
The London boroughs became in effect unitary authorities (combining both county and borough functions, much like the former county boroughs) at the GLC's abolition on 1 April 1986.
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 British History Online - Middlesex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was produced by the 'Metropolitan London in the 1690s' project, based at the CMH.
Hackney was the largest parish transferred to the administrative county of London in 1889, and became a metropolitan borough with over 220,000 inhabitants, before giving its name to a Greater London borough in 1965.
The ancient parish of Stepney covered most of the area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the middle ages, but was gradually reduced in area.
www.british-history.ac.uk /place.asp?placeid=7   (1005 words)

  
 Audit Commission - London Metropolitan Archives
4 The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is part of the Town Clerk’s Department and reports to the Libraries, Guildhall Art Gallery and Archives Committee of the Corporation of London.
5 The LMA works in partnership with all London borough archives and local studies services to ensure that material of relevance to specific communities is held at the most appropriate level.
London averages for the seven boroughs who reported financial information to Cipfa in 2000/01 were £221,000 net expenditure, 4,445 visitors and 1,412 documents produced.
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