Holborn (district board)

Holborn was a local government district in the metropolitan area of London to the north west of the City of London from 1855 to 1900.

The district was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 from the following Middlesex civil parishes and places: [Metropolis Management Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c.120)]
*The Liberty of Glasshouse Yard
*The Liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place
*St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr
*St Sepulchre Middlesex

The district was governed by the Holborn District Board of Works which consisted of elected vestrymen. Holborn was originally within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works and nominated one member to the MBW. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board became the County of London, and Holborn District Board of Works became a local council under the London County Council.

The district was abolished in 1900, when the County of London was divided into twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs. A new Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was created by the merger of Holborn District (less Glasshouse Yard) with the neighbouring St Giles District along with two of the Inns of Court: Lincoln's Inn and Staple Inn. [Frederic A Youngs Jr. "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England", Volume 1: Southern England, London , 1979]

The Board of Works was administered from Holborn Town Hall, Gray's Inn Road. [ [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/makepdf.asp?fn=E:YIMAGEDATAHISTDIRTIFBCL130~3