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Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Admin. HQ: | High Holborn |
| Created: | 1900 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
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| Successor: | London Borough of Camden |
The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras and the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead to form the London Borough of Camden.
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The borough was formed from the civil parishes of St Andrew Holborn above the Bars, St George the Martyr, St Giles in the Fields, and St George Bloomsbury with the Liberty of Saffron Hill plus two of the Inns of Court.
St Giles, St George and St Andrew were depicted on the borough seal. The several constituent parishes were illustrated in the arms granted to Holborn in 1906, while the supporters, the Lion and the Griffin are from the arms of Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn (Inns of Court).
Several of the street names in the British Museum/Senate House area still bear the "Borough of Holborn" area designation.
Holborn Town Hall still exists, on High Holborn.
Holborn was the smallest of the twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, with an area of between 405 and 407 acres (1.6 km²). It also had the smallest population of any of the boroughs throughout its existence. The populations recorded in National Censuses were:
Constituent Civil Parishes 1801-1899
| Year[1] | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
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| Population | 67,103 | 80,642 | 88,172 | 90,670 | 93,767 | 95,726 | 94,074 | 93,513 | 78,668 | 70,938 |
Metropolitan Borough 1900-1961
| Year[2] | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1941 | 1951 | 1961 |
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| Population | 59,405 | 49,357 | 43,192 | 38,860 | [3] | 24,810 | 22,008 |
- ^ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV); Census tables for Holborn Metropolitan Borough
- ^ Holborn MetB: Census Tables at Vision of Britain accessed 14 Dec 2006
- ^ The census was suspended for World War II
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