St Botolph without Aldgate was an ancient parish in the metropolitan area of London. The parish was partly within the

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and partly in the

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. Each part operated as a separate parish for civil administration with its own local government, but it was a single parish for ecclesiastical purposes. The part in Middlesex was sometimes known as

East Smithfield East Smithfield is a small locality in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, east London, and also a short street, a part of the A1203 road. Once broader in scope, the name came to apply to the part of the ancient parish of St Botolph without ...

. It was a heavily built-upon parish with a high population density.

Within the City

The section of the parish in the City of London was in the Portsoken ward. Following the enactment of the

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, the part of the parish of

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that was within the City of London was transferred to St Botolph without Aldgate in 1900. The City of London section of the parish was abolished in 1907 when the City of London civil parish was created.

Outside the City

Civil parish administration was in the hands of the vestry until 1855 when the parish was grouped into the Whitechapel District and the parish elected six members to Whitechapel District Board of Works. The parish was transferred from the

to the

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in 1889. In 1895 it absorbed the civil parishes of St Katherine by the Tower and

Old Tower Without Old Tower Without was an extra-parochial place, usually described as a "precinct", and after 1858 a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England. Old Tower Without was outside the jurisdiction of either the City of London or the Coun ...

. In 1901 it absorbed the civil parish of the

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. It became part of the

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in 1900 and the local authority became Stepney Borough Council. The civil parish then had only nominal existence until 1921 when it was abolished.

References

{{Authority control Parishes united into districts (Metropolis) Former civil parishes in London History of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Bills of mortality parishes