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County of London
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{{infobox historic district|
|Name= London
|HQ=
County Hall, London County Hall, Lambeth
|Status=
Administrative county,
Ceremonial counties of England ceremonial county
|Start=
1889
|End=
1965
|Replace=
Greater London
|Image=
Image:EnglandLondon1890.png County of London shown within England
}}
The '''County of London''' was an
administrative counties of England administrative county and
ceremonial counties of England ceremonial county of
England from
1888 to
1965. It bordered
Middlesex to the north and west,
Essex to the north-east,
Kent to the south-east and
Surrey to the south.
It was created as part of the general introduction of
county councils and was governed by the
London County Council. It did not cover all of today's
Greater London, and did not have authority over the
City of London. It covered the same area that the
Metropolitan Board of Works (which had run London's roads, bridges, etc) had covered, specifically parts of
Middlesex,
Surrey and
Kent - corresponding to today's
London Boroughs of
London Borough of Camden Camden,
London Borough of Greenwich Greenwich,
London Borough of Hackney Hackney,
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Hammersmith and Fulham,
London Borough of Islington Islington,
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Kensington and Chelsea,
London Borough of Lambeth Lambeth,
London Borough of Lewisham Lewisham,
London Borough of Southwark Southwark,
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets,
London Borough of Wandsworth Wandsworth and
City of Westminster Westminster.
In addition to being an administrative county with a
county council, the Act also provided that "such portion of the administrative county of London as forms part of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, shall [...] be severed from those counties, and form a separate county for all non-administrative purposes by the name of the county of London".
The county was abolished in
1965 and was replaced by the much larger
Greater London, which took in nearly all of Middlesex, along with much of
Surrey,
Kent,
Essex and part of
Hertfordshire.
The area of the old County of London is now sometimes known as
Inner London. Since the
Greater London Council was not an education authority, but London County Council had been, an
Inner London Education Authority was constituted to continue this role for the area of the old County of London, and this continued until the
1980s.
Metropolitan boroughs
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1965 London borough Borough boundaries">right|The County of London (in red), super imposed upon today's [[Greater London">frame|right|The County of London (in red), super imposed upon today's [[Greater London area, to show the difference in size with post-
1965 London borough Borough boundaries
In
1899, eleven years after its foundation, the
London Government Act 1899 London Government Act divided the County of London into 28
metropolitan boroughs. These replaced the ancient parish
vestry vestries and district boards as the second tier of local government. When the County of London was abolished in
1965 these metropolitan boroughs were merged to form 12
London boroughs.
{| align=center border=0
|-
|colspan=2|
- City of London (not a metropolitan borough)
|rowspan=2|
Image:LondonCounty.png
|-
|
- Metropolitan Borough of Westminster Westminster
- Metropolitan Borough of Holborn Holborn
- Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury Finsbury
- Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch Shoreditch
- Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Bethnal Green
- Metropolitan Borough of Stepney Stepney
- Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey Bermondsey
- Metropolitan Borough of Southwark Southwark
- Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell Camberwell
- Metropolitan Borough of Deptford Deptford
- Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham Lewisham
- Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich Woolwich
- Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich Greenwich
- Metropolitan Borough of Poplar Poplar
|
- Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Hackney
- Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington Stoke Newington
- Metropolitan Borough of Islington Islington
- Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras St Pancras
- Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead Hampstead
- Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone St Marylebone
- Metropolitan Borough of Paddington Paddington
- Metropolitan Borough of Kensington Kensington
- Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith Hammersmith
- Metropolitan Borough of Fulham Fulham
- Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth Wandsworth
- Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth Lambeth
- Metropolitan Borough of Battersea Battersea
- Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea Chelsea
|}
External links
-
County of London boundary map
{{LGA1963}}
Category:London Government
Category:Former administrative counties London
Category:Former boroughs of London *
cs:Londýn (hrabství)
de:County of London
no:London (grevskap)
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|-
! bgcolor="#efefef" align="center" | '''
County of London'''
|-
| align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" |
Metropolitan Borough of Battersea Battersea |
Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey Bermondsey |
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Bethnal Green |
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell Camberwell |
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea Chelsea |
Metropolitan Borough of Deptford Deptford |
Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury Finsbury |
Metropolitan Borough of Fulham Fulham |
Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich Greenwich |
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Hackney
Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith Hammersmith |
Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead Hampstead |
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn Holborn |
Metropolitan Borough of Islington Islington |
Metropolitan Borough of Kensington Kensington |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth Lambeth |
Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham Lewisham |
Metropolitan Borough of Paddington Paddington |
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar Poplar |
Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch Shoreditch
Metropolitan Borough of Southwark Southwark |
Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone St Marylebone |
Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras St Pancras |
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney Stepney |
Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington Stoke Newington |
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth Wandsworth |
Metropolitan Borough of Westminster Westminster |
Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich Woolwich
|}
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