Shoreditch (parish)
| Shoreditch St Leonard |
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|---|---|
| Area | |
| • 1881 | 648 acres (2.62 km2) |
| • 1901 | 658 acres (2.66 km2) |
| • 1961 | 659 acres (2.67 km2) |
| Population | |
| • 1881 | 126,591 |
| • 1901 | 118,637 |
| • 1961 | 40,455 |
| Density | |
| • 1881 | 195/acre |
| • 1901 | 180/acre |
| • 1961 | 61/acre |
| History | |
| • Origin | Ancient parish |
| • Abolished | 1965 |
| • Succeeded by | Coterminous with Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch from 1900 Replaced by London Borough of Hackney |
| Status | Civil parish |
| Government | Vestry of the Parish of Shoreditch (1855—1900) |
| • HQ | Town Hall, Old Street |
Shoreditch (St Leonard) was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It was both a civil parish, used for administrative purposes, and an ecclesiastical parish of the Church of England. The parish church is St Leonard's, Shoreditch, often simply called "Shoreditch Church".
The civil parish was within the Ossulstone hundred and, from the 17th century, the Tower division. It was entrusted with various administrative functions from the 17th century. In 1837 it became a Poor Law parish, with its own workhouse. The vestry also had responsibility for highways and burials. In 1855 the parish was included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the vestry elected two members of the board.
Under the Metropolis Management Act 1855 any parish that exceeded 2,000 ratepayers was to be divided into wards; as such the incorporated vestry of St Leonard Shoreditch was divided into eight wards (electing vestrymen): No. 1 or Moorfields (18), No. 2 or Church (21), No. 3 or Hoxton (21), No. 4 or Wenlock (18), No. 5 or Whitmore (12), No. 6 or Kingsland (12), No. 7 or Haggerstone (9) and No. 8 or Acton (9).
In 1889 the parish was included in the new County of London, and in 1899 the civil vestry were dissolved, and the parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
The civil parish covered 648 acres (262 ha). The populations recorded in National Censuses were:
Shoreditch St Leonard's Vestry 1801–1899
The precursor of the Saint Leonard's workhouse was housed in several houses in Hoxton. In 1731, that site housed 84 inmates. Saint Leonard's new, three-story workhouse (with infirmary and apothecary) was opened in 1777, thanks to a levy tax passed by an Act of Parliament in 1774. The Shoreditch Vestry built this workhouse on the Parish Poor Trustees' "Land of Promise," on Kingsland Road.
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