Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Admin. HQ: | Town Hall, King Street |
| Created: | 1900 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
| Successor: | London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham |
The Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith was, between 1900 and 1965, a metropolitan borough of the County of London. It was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham to form the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The new London Borough retains Hammersmith's motto of Spectemur Agendo
It included Hammersmith, Wormwood Scrubs, Old Oak Common, and Shepherd's Bush.
The borough covered 2,286 acres. The population in each census was:[1]
- 1801: 5,600
- 1811: 7,393
- 1821: 8,809
- 1831: 10,222
- 1841: 13,453
- 1851: 17,760
- 1861: 24,519
- 1871: 42,691
- 1881: 71,939
- 1891: 97,239
- 1901: 112,239
- ^ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV).
from County of London: 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
from Essex: Barking • Chingford • Dagenham • East Ham • Hornchurch • Ilford • Leyton • Romford • Walthamstow • Wanstead and Woodford • West Ham
from Hertfordshire: Barnet • East Barnet • to Hertfordshire: Potters Bar †
from Middlesex: Acton • Brentford and Chiswick • Ealing • Edmonton • Enfield • Feltham • Finchley • Friern Barnet • Harrow • Hayes and Harlington • Hendon • Heston and Isleworth • Hornsey • Potters Bar • Ruislip-Northwood • Southall • Southgate • Tottenham • Twickenham • Uxbridge • Wembley • Willesden • Wood Green • Yiewsley and West Drayton
from Kent: Beckenham • Bexley • Bromley • Chislehurst and Sidcup • Crayford • Erith • Orpington • Penge
from 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 • to Surrey: Staines † • Sunbury-on-Thames †
