Holborn was a

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district in the metropolitan area of

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to the north west of the

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from 1855 to 1900. The district was formed by the

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from the following

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es and places: *The Liberty of

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*The Liberty of

Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place was a liberty and from 1866 to 1930 a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England. It was part of the ancient parish of St Andrew Holborn. The southern boundary was the street no ...

* St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr *

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District board

The district was governed by the Holborn District Board of Works, which consisted of forty-nine elected vestrymen: twenty-four elected for the parish of St Andrew Holborn above Bars; nine for St George the Martyr; nine for Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents, and Ely Place; six for St Sepulchre and one for Glasshouse Yard. The first elections were held in November 1855, when the entire membership of the board was elected. Thereafter elections for one third of the seats were held in May, beginning in the year 1857. Holborn District was originally within the area of responsibility of the

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and nominated one member to the MBW. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board became the

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, and Holborn District Board of Works became a local council under the

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. The Board of Works was administered from the old

Holborn Town Hall Holborn Town hall is a municipal building on High Holborn, Holborn, London. It is a Grade II listed building. History The first town hall was a substantial structure on the corner of Gray's Inn Road and Clerkenwell Road which had been designed ...

Gray's Inn Road Gray's Inn Road (or Grays Inn Road) is an important road in the Bloomsbury district of Central London, in the London Borough of Camden. The road begins at the City of London boundary, where it bisects High Holborn, and ends at King's Cross and ...

Abolition

The district was abolished in 1900, when the County of London was divided into twenty-eight

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s. A new

Metropolitan Borough of Holborn 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 Boroug ...

was created by the merger of Holborn District (less Glasshouse Yard and St Sepulchre) with the neighbouring St Giles District along with two of the

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and

Staple Inn Staple Inn is a part-Tudor period, Tudor building on the south side of High Holborn street in the City of London, London, England. Located near Chancery Lane tube station, it is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty ...

.Frederic A Youngs Jr. ''Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England'', Volume 1: Southern England, London , 1979 Glasshouse Yard and St Sepulchre became part of the

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References

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