A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA
CIVIC CEMETERIES
THE GEOGRAPHY OF LONDON - LOCAL AUTHORITY ADMINISTRATION IN LONDON
LONDON BOROUGHS FORMERLY IN MIDDLESEX
By 1900 the areas of historic Middlesex (north of the river Thames) now part of the County of London were the metropolitan boroughs of
BETHNAL GREEN
CHELSEA
FINSBURY
(Charterhouse, Clerkenwell, Glasshouse Yard, St Luke, St Sepulchre)
FULHAM
(Parsons Green, Sands End, Walham Green, West Kensington)
HACKNEY
(Clapton, Dalston, Homerton, Kingsland)
HAMMERSMITH
(Old Oak Common, Shepherd’s Bush, Wormwood Scrubs)
HAMPSTEAD
(Belsize Park, Hampstead Heath, Kilburn, Primrose Hill)
HOLBORN
(Bloomsbury, Ely Place and Rents, Hatton Gardens, Lincoln and Staples Inn Saffron Hill, St Giles in the Fields)
ISLINGTON
(Archway, Barnsbury, Canonbury, Highbury, Holloway, Pentonville, Tufnell Park)
KENSINGTON
(Brompton, Earls Court, Kensal Green, Notting Hill)
PADDINGTON
(Bayswater, Maida Hill and Vale, Westbourne Green, West Kilburn)
POPLAR
(Bow, Blackwall, Bromley by St Leonard, Isle of Dogs)
ST MARYLEBONE
(Lisson Grove, Regent’s Park, St John’s Wood)
ST PANCRAS
(Camden Town, Euston, Kentish Town, Kings Cross, Somers Town, Tottenham Court Road)
SHOREDITCH
(Haggerston, Hoxton)
STEPNEY
(Limehouse, Mile End Old and New Town, Norton Folgate, Old Artillery Ground, Ratcliff, St George in the East, Shadwell, Spitalfields, Tower of London, Wapping, Whitechapel)
STOKE NEWINGTON
(South Hornsey)
WESTMINSTER
(Belgravia, Clement Danes, Covent Garden, Hyde Park, Liberty of Rolls, Mayfair, Pimlico, St George Hanover Square, St James, St John and St Margaret, St Martin in the Fields, Savoy, Soho, The Strand)
In 1965 almost all areas of the county of Middlesex became part of Greater London forming the fifteen modern London boroughs of
BARNET
The urban districts and municipal boroughs of Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hendon from Middlesex and Barnet and East Barnet from Hertfordshire
BRENT
The municipal boroughs of Wembley and Willesden from Middlesex
CAMDEN
The metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
The metropolitan boroughs of Paddington, St Marylebone and Westminster
EALING
The municipal boroughs of Acton, Ealing and Southall from Middlesex
ENFIELD
The municipal boroughs of Edmonton, Enfield and Southgate from Middlesex
HACKNEY
The metropolitan boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington
HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM
The metropolitan boroughs of Fulham and Hammersmith
HARINGEY
The municipal boroughs of Hornsey, Tottenham and Wood Green from Middlesex
HARROW
The municipal borough of Harrow from Middlesex
HILLINGDON
The urban districts and municipal borough of Hayes and Harlington, Ruislip-Northwood, Yiewsley and West Drayton and Uxbridge from Middlesex
HOUNSLOW
The urban districts of Brentford and Chiswick, Feltham, Heston and Isleworth from Middlesex
ISLINGTON
The metropolitan boroughs of Finsbury and Islington
KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
The metropolitan boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington
TOWER HAMLETS
The metropolitan boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney