Stoke Newington (parish)
| Stoke Newington St Mary |
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|---|---|
| Area | |
| • 1881 | 638 acres (2.58 km2) |
| • 1901 | 864 acres (3.50 km2) |
| • 1961 | 865 acres (3.50 km2) |
| Population | |
| • 1881 | 22,781 |
| • 1901 | 51,247 |
| • 1961 | 52,301 |
| Density | |
| • 1881 | 36/acre |
| • 1901 | 59/acre |
| • 1961 | 60/acre |
| History | |
| • Origin | Ancient parish |
| • Abolished | 1965 |
| • Succeeded by | Coterminous with Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington from 1900 Replaced by London Borough of Hackney |
| Status | Civil parish |
| Government | Vestry of the Parish of Stoke Newington (1894—1900) |
| • HQ | 126, Church Street, Stoke Newington |
Stoke Newington 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 vestry of the civil parish was entrusted with various administrative functions from the 17th century. In 1837 it became a part of the Poor Law Union of Hackney. In 1855 the parish was included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Together with Hackney, Stoke Newington formed the Hackney District of the Metropolis. In 1889 the district was included in the new County of London.
In 1891 as its population had increased the parish of St Mary Stoke Newington was divided into five wards (electing vestrymen): Lordship (15), Church (15), Manor (12), Clissold (9) and Palatine (9).
It was dissolved in 1894 with Hackney and Stoke Newington vestries forming separate local authorities. In 1900 the civil vestries were dissolved, and the Stoke Newington parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington. At the same time, Stoke Newington absorbed most of the parish and urban district of South Hornsey, which had been an exclave of Middlesex in the County of London. The civil parish and metropolitan borough were abolished in 1965 and used to form part of the London Borough of Hackney.
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