Municipal Borough of Leyton

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Leyton
Leyton Town Hall
Leyton Town Hall

Leyton within Essex in 1961
Area
 • 19012,594 acres (10.5 km2)
 • 19312,594 acres (10.5 km2)
 • 19612,595 acres (10.5 km2)
Population
 • 190198,912
 • 1931128,313
 • 196193,959
Density
 • 190138.1/acre
 • 193149.5/acre
 • 196136.2/acre
History
 • OriginLeyton St Mary ancient parish
 • Created1873
 • Abolished1965
 • Succeeded byLondon Borough of Waltham Forest
Status
Urban district (1894–1926)
Municipal borough (1926–1965)
GovernmentLeyton Local Board (1873–1894)
Leyton Urban District Council (1894–1926)
Leyton Borough Council (1926–1965)
 • HQHigh Road, Leyton
 • MottoMINISTRANDO DIGNITAS (Dignity in service)

Leyton's coat of arms outside Leytonstone Library
Subdivisions
 • TypeCivil parishes
 • UnitsLeyton (1873–1965)[note a]
Wanstead (part) (1883–1894)
Cann Hall (1894–1965)

Leyton was a local government district in southwest Essex, England, from 1873 to 1965. It included the neighbourhoods of Leyton, Leytonstone and Cann Hall. It was suburban to London, forming part of the London postal district and Metropolitan Police District. It now forms the southernmost part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in Greater London.

Background

Leyton St Mary or Low Leyton (sometimes spelt "Layton")

exclave of Walthamstow, known as the Walthamstow Slip. To the south, the parish of Wanstead formed a long protrusion known as the Wanstead Slip, which extended to the marshes of the River Lea and divided Leyton from West Ham.[2]

Much of the early governance of the parish was in the hands of the

rights of common, who was liable for maintaining roads and bridges, and for making and maintaining infrastructure such as animal pounds, lock ups and stocks.[3]

The vestry

From the 17th century, the local government of Leyton was increasingly controlled by the parish

coffee houses, the committee members being entitled to a generous entertainment allowance of 40 shillings twice a year, although this was halved in 1723. Originally the meetings were presided over by the lord of the manor of Ruckholt, until 1695 when the Vicar of Leyton took on that role. A parish clerk is first mentioned in 1623.[3]

The parish appointed a parish

Whipps Cross Hospital.[4]

There were two constables, one for Leyton and one for Leytonstone; both were appointed by the vestry from 1733. There was a

whipping post at Leyton, replaced by a new one in 1756 when the stocks were also replaced, There was also a watch house and "cage" or lock-up. Leytonstone also had stocks and a watch house; a cage was built at Harrow Green in 1812. The parish of Leyton was incorporated into the Metropolitan Police District in 1840.[3]

Urban District Council

Through house building and construction of the railway the parish expanded as an extra-metropolitan suburb of London. The parish authorities resisted earlier attempts to form a

Public Health Act 1872 for the parish of Leyton and Walthamstow Slip, creating a local government district in 1873. It was extended to include part of the parish of Wanstead to the south, known as Wanstead Slip or Cann Hall, from 1875.[5] The board of the new district met in the vestry room until 1882, when new public offices were built in Leyton High Road to the design of J Knight.[3]

Leyton became an

Italianate style".[6]

Amongst the infrastructure improvements initiated by the board was the Leyton Urban District Council Tramways; tram services in Leyton remained in local government control until they became the responsibility of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.[7]

Municipal Borough

After a formal petition to the

Privy Council in 1920, the urban district was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1926.[8] Each of the existing ten wards was represented by one alderman and three councillors.[3] The first mayor of the new borough was James Benjamin Slade, who was knighted in 1927.[9]

Borough arms

The coat of arms of the municipal borough were granted on 27 November 1926. The arms were described as "Or three Chevronels Gules on a Chief Gules a Lion passant Or". The

Dissolution of the Monasteries.[10] The lion and cross-staff on the crest of the Leyton arms have been preserved in the arms of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, which were granted on 1 January 1965.[11]

Abolition

In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and its former area transferred to Greater London from Essex. Its former area was combined with that of the Municipal Borough of Chingford and the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow to form the present-day London Borough of Waltham Forest.[12] The last Mayor of Leyton was Terence Charles Messenger.[9]

Notes

  • ^note a : The whole parish, except 1883—1887

References

  1. ^ "Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time - Leyton Essex". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  2. ^ Powell, W R, ed. (1973). "Victoria County History - Essex A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 Leyton: Introduction". www.british-history.ac.uk. British History Online. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Powell, W R, ed. (1973). "Victoria County History - Essex A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 Leyton: Local government and public services". www.british-history.ac.uk. British History Online. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  4. ^ Higginbotham, Peter. "The Workhouse in West Ham, Essex". www.workhouses.org.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Waltham Forest Archives NRA30759 - Leyton Local Board of Health" (PDF). www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives. Retrieved 29 May 2017. (viewable as a download)
  6. ISBN 0--300-10701-3
    .
  7. ISBN 978-1854141798
    .
  8. ^ "New Essex Boroughs". Chelmsford Chronicle. 1 October 1926. p. 8.
  9. ^ a b "Leyton Mayors". Waltham Forest Memories. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  10. ^ "LEYTON BOROUGH COUNCIL". www.civicheraldry.co.uk. Civic Heraldry of England and Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  11. ^ "WALTHAM FOREST, LONDON BOROUGH OF". www.civicheraldry.co.uk. Civic Heraldry of England and Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  12. ^ "A Vision of Britain through Time - Waltham Forest LB through time". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

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