Metropolitan borough

A metropolitan borough, in general terms is a type of local government district in England, and is a subdivision of a metropolitan county. For further details see the Wikipedia article at.

The term metropolitan borough was also used for administrative subdivisions of London between 1900 and 1965. They were created in 1900 under the London Government Act 1899, and replaced vestries as the subdivisions of the County of London. For a map see the Wikipedia article [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_boroughs_of_the_County_of_London]

There was much discussion and negotiation 1899 over the way in which the vestries would be amalgamated, details of which can be found in The Times.


 * City of London (not a metropolitan borough)
 * Metropolitan Borough of Westminster
 * Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
 * Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury
 * Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
 * Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
 * Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
 * Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey
 * Metropolitan Borough of Southwark
 * Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell
 * Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
 * Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham
 * Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich
 * Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich
 * Metropolitan Borough of Poplar
 * Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
 * Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington
 * Metropolitan Borough of Islington
 * Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras
 * Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead
 * Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone
 * Metropolitan Borough of Paddington
 * Metropolitan Borough of Kensington
 * Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith
 * Metropolitan Borough of Fulham
 * Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth
 * Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth
 * Metropolitan Borough of Battersea
 * Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

In 1965 with the replacement of the London County Council with the Greater London Council the Metropolitan Boroughs were abolished and amalgamated into larger Boroughs. A number of road signs with the old borough names survive. A number of the town halls have been converted to other uses.