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1 day ago · This act increased the number of MPs representing London from 22 to 59. The County of London was created in 1889 in succession to the Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1900, the county was divided into 28 boroughs (plus the City of London) and the outer boundary was adjusted. However, the old constituency boundaries remained in place until 1918.
3 days ago · London, city, capital of the United Kingdom. It is among the oldest of the world’s great cities—its history spanning nearly two millennia—and one of the most cosmopolitan. By far Britain’s largest metropolis, it is also the country’s economic, transportation, and cultural center.
3 days ago · Once again, it was a Conservative Government which, by the London Government Act of 1899, carried through a reform of metropolitan administration by replacing the vestries and district boards with twenty-eight Metropolitan Borough Councils within the County of London. The powers of the LCC were not extended and the City was left untouched.
2 days ago · England. Yorkshire. 53°22′51″N 01°28′13″W. / 53.38083°N 1.47028°W / 53.38083; -1.47028. Sheffield is a city [a] in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield.
1 day ago · Under the next redistribution of seats by the Representation of the People Act 1918 constituencies in the County of London were defined in terms of wards of the metropolitan boroughs created in 1900. Islington North comprised three wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington: Tollington, Tufnell and Upper Holloway.
2 days ago · Paddington metropolitan borough, covering 1,357 a. (c. 550 ha.) in 1911 and 1961, formed the north-western portion of Westminster L.B. from 1965. The northern two thirds of the parish are covered by London Clay, which also covers the west side as far south as Moscow Road but the east side only to Paddington green.
3 days ago · LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM 1837. BOARD OF GUARDIANS. WORKHOUSES. IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS. THE VESTRY TO 1855. METROPOLITAN VESTRY. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH. TOWN HALLS. Old Town Hall. LONDON BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA. Footnotes. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM 1837.
