Metropolitan Borough of Holborn

Holborn
Motto: Multi Pertransibunt et Augebitur Scientia (Many shall pass through and learning shall be increased)
Holborn within the County of London
Geography
Status	Metropolitan borough
1911 area	405 acres (1.64 km2)
1931 area	406 acres (1.64 km2)
1961 area	407 acres (1.65 km2)
HQ	High Holborn
History
Created	1900
Abolished	1965
Succeeded by	London Borough of Camden
Demography
1911 population - 1911 density	49,357 121/acre
1931 population - 1931 density	38,860 96/acre
1961 population - 1961 density	22,008 54/acre
Politics
Governance	Holborn Borough Council
Coat of arms of the borough council

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.

Boundaries

The borough was formed from the following civil parishes and places:

• St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr (Holborn District Board of Works)
• St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (St Giles District Board of Works)
• The Liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place (Holborn District Board of Works)
• two of the Inns of Court: Lincoln's Inn and Staple Inn

Coat of arms

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 name signs in the British Museum/Senate House area still bear the "Borough of Holborn" area designation.

Holborn Town Hall still exists, on High Holborn.

Area and population

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). Therefore it was even smaller than the City of London. 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
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
Population	59,405	49,357	43,192	38,860	[3]	24,810	22,008

Gallery

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  Holborn Town Hall

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  Borough seal

See also

• London Government Act 1899
• Metropolis Management Act 1855
• Bourne Estate

References

1. ^ Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV); Census tables for Holborn Metropolitan Borough
2. ^ Holborn MetB: Census Tables at Vision of Britain accessed 14 Dec 2006
3. ^ The census was suspended for World War II

Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°07′22″W / 51.5171°N 0.1228°W / 51.5171; -0.1228