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Metropolitan Borough of Kensington
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough (and Royal borough from 1901) |
| Admin. HQ: | Kensington High Street |
| Created: | 1900 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
| Successor: | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
The Metropolitan Borough of Kensington was a metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965.
It bordered Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, Paddington, and Westminster
It included Kensington, South Kensington, Earls Court, Notting Hill, Brompton and part of Kensal Green.
In 1901 it was granted the status of a royal borough, and therefore from then was also known as the Royal Borough of Kensington. The status was granted after the death of Queen Victoria, in accordance with her wish (she was born at Kensington Palace in the borough). [1]
In 1965 it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
A number of street name plaques still bear the designation "Borough of Kensington."
The Kensington borough covered 2,291 acres (9.3 km²) once part of Kensal New Town (a detached part of Chelsea before 1901) became incorporated. The population of Kensington recorded in the Census, which excludes Kensal New Town before 1901, was:
| Year[1] | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 |
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| Population | 8,556 | 10,886 | 14,428 | 20,902 | 26,834 | 44,053 | 70,108 | 120,299 | 163,151 | 166,308 | 176,628 |
- ^ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV); Census tables for Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras
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