Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London

Metropolitan borough (London)
Also known as	Borough
Category	Local government district
Location	England
Found in	County of London
Created by	London Government Act 1899
Created	1900
Abolished by	London Government Act 1963
Abolished	1965
Number	28 (as of 1965)
Possible status	City (1)
	Royal (1)
Government	Borough Council

The term metropolitan borough was used from 1900 to 1965, for the subdivisions of the County of London created by the London Government Act 1899.^[1]

The metropolitan boroughs were created in 1900 by the London Government Act 1899 which created 28 metropolitan boroughs as sub-divisions of the County of London. They replaced vestries as the second tier of local government.

They were the following:

1. City of London (not a metropolitan borough)
2. Westminster
3. Holborn
4. Finsbury
5. Shoreditch
6. Bethnal Green
7. Stepney
8. Bermondsey
9. Southwark
10. Camberwell
11. Deptford
12. Lewisham
13. Woolwich
14. Greenwich
15. Poplar
16. Hackney
17. Stoke Newington
18. Islington
19. St Pancras
20. Hampstead
21. St Marylebone
22. Paddington
23. Kensington
24. Hammersmith
25. Fulham
26. Wandsworth
27. Lambeth
28. Battersea
29. Chelsea

In 1965 the County of London was abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced with the much larger Greater London. The 28 metropolitan boroughs were also abolished and merged to create 12 of 32 larger London boroughs.^[2]

References

1. ^ London Government Act 1899 c.14, s.1: "Establishment of metropolitan boroughs in London"
2. ^ London Government Act 1963 c.33, s.3: "the following administrative areas and their councils (and, in the case of a borough, the municipal corporation thereof) shall cease to exist, that is to say, the counties of London and Middlesex, the metropolitan boroughs, and any existing county borough, county district or parish the area of which falls wholly within Greater London"