Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place
Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place boundaries in 1851
Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place was a
St Andrew Holborn
.
The southern boundary was the street now called
See of Ely.[2]
The liberty had a
Poor Law Union in 1836.[3]
It occupied an area of 30 acres and the population was as follows:[4]
| Year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 7,781 | 7,482 | 9,270 | 9,745 | 9,455 | 8,728 | 3,980 | 4,506 | 2,561 | 1,733 | 825 |
For local government it was grouped into the Holborn District from 1855 to 1900 and then became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
The liberty was abolished in 1889, when the Local Government Act 1888 merged remaining liberties into their surrounding counties. The liberty had been surrounded by Middlesex, but the 1888 act created a new County of London in the metropolitan area and it became part of the new county instead. The civil parish was abolished in 1930.
References
- ^ "Liberty of Saffron Hill Hatton Garden Ely Rents and Ely Place CP/ParLib through time - Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". visionofbritain.org.uk.
- ^ "Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - The Rookeries of London, by Thomas Beames, 1852 - Chapter 4". victorianlondon.org.
- ^ "The Workhouse". workhouses.org.uk.
- ^ "Liberty of Saffron Hill Hatton Garden Ely Rents and Ely Place CP/ParLib through time - Population Statistics - Total Population". visionofbritain.org.uk.
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