Municipal Borough of Hornsey

Hornsey
Hornsey Town Hall
Hornsey within Middlesex in 1961
Area
• 1901	2,875 acres (11.6 km2)
• 1965	2,871 acres (11.6 km2)
Population
• 1901	72,056
• 1961	97,962
History
• Origin	Part of the parish of Hornsey
• Created	1867
• Abolished	1965
• Succeeded by	London Borough of Haringey
Status	Local board 1867 – 1894 Urban district 1894 – 1903 Municipal borough From 1903
• HQ	Town Hall, Crouch End From 1935
• Motto	FORTIOR QUO PARATIOR (THE BETTER PREPARED, THE STRONGER)
Coat of arms of the borough council

Hornsey was a local government district in east Middlesex from 1867 to 1965.

In 1867, a Local Board was formed for part of the civil parish of Hornsey. The rest of the parish was already under South Hornsey Local Board formed in 1865.

In 1894, under the Local Government Act of that year, Hornsey became an urban district. In 1903, it was incorporated as a municipal borough. The corporation made two unsuccessful attempts to gain county borough status in 1904 and 1915. The borough was part of the London postal district and Metropolitan Police District.

The borough's coat of arms, granted in 1904, featured two oak trees recalling the ancient forest that once covered the area and surviving remnants including Queen's Wood, Highgate Wood and Coldfall Wood. The manor of Hornsey had at one time been held by the Diocese of London and crossed swords, taken from the Diocese's arms, completed the design. The Latin motto was Fortior quo paratior or The better prepared, the stronger.

One of the municipal borough's first significant projects was the opening of Hornsey Cottage Hospital in 1910. Hornsey Town Hall, built in 1933–35 and designed by Reginald Uren, was widely admired for its clean, Modernist style and beautiful detailing, symbolizing enlightened local government. However, since 2004 Haringey Council gradually removed municipal services from the building, and its increasing dereliction caused a local furore.

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