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Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Admin. HQ: | Marylebone Road |
| Created: | 1900 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
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| Successor: | City of Westminster |
The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965.
It was based directly on the previously existing civil parish of St Marylebone, which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Board of Works area in 1855, retaining a parish vestry, and then became part of the County of London in 1889.
It was that part of the current City of Westminster which is north of Oxford Street, and east of Maida Vale and Edgware Road. It included the areas Marylebone, Regent's Park, St John's Wood, and Lisson Grove, along with the western part of the district of Fitzrovia.
In 1965 it was abolished and its former area was amalgamated with that of the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster to form the City of Westminster.
The name is derived from a chapel, dedicated to St Mary, and founded by Barking Abbey, the holders of the Manor of Tyburn. The chapel was named St Mary-le-Bourne, for the bourne, or River Tyburn. The blue and white waves on the arms, represent this stream. The lilies and roses on the arms, are derived from Barking Abbey, and represent the legend that when the Virgin's tomb was opened it was found to contain lilies and roses.
The motto: Fiat Secundum Verbatum Tuum, is from Luke Ch.I v.38 and translates as Be it according to Thy Word[1].
The arms were granted by the College of Arms on August 17, 1901.[2]
The borough covered an area of 1,473 acres (6.0 km²). The population found in the Census was:
Civil Parish 1801-1899
| Year[3] | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
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| Population | 63,982 | 75,624 | 96,040 | 122,206 | 138,164 | 157,696 | 161,680 | 159,254 | 154,910 | 142,404 |
Metropolitan Borough 1900-1961
| Year[4] | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1941 | 1951 | 1961 |
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| Population | 133,301 | 118,160 | 104,173 | 97,627 | [5] | 75,821 | 69,045 |
- ^ Civic Heraldry: The London County Council accessed 19 Jun 2007
- ^ Geoffrey Briggs, Civic & Corporate Heraldry, London, 1971
- ^ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV); Census tables for Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone
- ^ St Marylebone MetB: Census Tables accessed 19 June 2007
- ^ The census was suspended for World War II
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