Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
| Holborn | |
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 Holborn Town Hall |
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 Holborn within the County of London |
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| Area | |
| • 1911 | 405 acres (1.64 km2) |
| • 1931 | 406 acres (1.64 km2) |
| • 1961 | 407 acres (1.65 km2) |
| Population | |
| • 1911 | 49,357 |
| • 1931 | 38,860 |
| • 1961 | 22,008 |
| Density | |
| • 1911 | 121/acre |
| • 1931 | 96/acre |
| • 1961 | 54/acre |
| History | |
| • Created | 1900 |
| • Abolished | 1965 |
| • Succeeded by | London Borough of Camden |
| Status | Metropolitan borough |
| Government | Holborn Borough Council |
| • HQ | High Holborn |
| • Motto | Multi Pertransibunt et Augebitur Scientia (Many shall pass through and learning shall be increased) |
 Coat of arms of the borough council |
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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 Borough of Camden.
The borough was formed from seven civil parishes and extra-parochial places: Furnival's Inn (part), Gray's Inn, Liberty of Saffron Hill, Lincoln's Inn, St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr, St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury and Staple Inn. In 1930 these seven were combined into a single civil parish called Holborn, which was conterminous with the metropolitan borough.
Previous to the borough's formation it had been administered by two separate local bodies: Holborn District Board of Works and St Giles District Board of Works. The Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery had not been under the control of any local authority prior to 1900.
St Giles, St George and St Andrew were depicted on the borough seal. The several constituent parishes were illustrated in the arms granted to Holborn in 1906, while the supporters, the Lion and the Griffin are from the arms of Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn (Inns of Court).
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