List of civil parishes in the County of London in 1891

This is a list of civil parishes in the County of London, excluding the City of London, on the night of the United Kingdom census, 1891. The total population of this area was 4,194,413.

There were 196 civil parishes in the county at large on this date, of which 80 were entirely outside the City, 112 were entirely within the City, and four were partly within the City.

Parish[1] District of Metropolis[2] Poor Law Union[1] Population[1]
Battersea None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 150,558
Bermondsey None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 84,682
Bethnal Green None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 129,132
Bow Poplar Poplar 40,365
Bromley Poplar Poplar 70,000
Camberwell None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 235,344
Charlton next Woolwich Plumstead Lewisham 11,742
Charterhouse None Holborn 136
Chelsea None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 96,253
Clapham Wandsworth Wandsworth and Clapham 43,698
Clerkenwell None (Vestry) Holborn 66,216
Deptford St Nicholas Greenwich Greenwich 6,887
Deptford St Paul Greenwich Greenwich 101,286
Eltham Plumstead Lewisham 5,682
Fulham None (Vestry) Fulham 91,639
Furnival's Inn (part)[notes 1] None Holborn 97
Gray's Inn None Holborn 253
Greenwich Greenwich Greenwich 57,240
Hackney Hackney Hackney 198,606
Hammersmith None (Vestry) Fulham 97,239
Hampstead None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 68,416
Holborn, St Andrew Above the Bars with St George the Martyr Holborn Holborn 26,228
Horsleydown, Southwark St John St Olave St Olave 9,812
Islington None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 319,143
Kensington None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 166,308
Kidbrooke Plumstead Woolwich 2,298
Lambeth None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 275,203
Lee Plumstead Lewisham 16,381
Lewisham Lewisham Lewisham 72,272
Limehouse Limehouse Stepney 32,202
Lincoln's Inn None Holborn 27
Mile End New Town Whitechapel Whitechapel 11,303
Mile End Old Town None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 107,592
Minories, Holy Trinity Whitechapel Whitechapel 301
Newington None (Vestry) St Saviour's 115,804
Norton Folgate Whitechapel Whitechapel 1,449
Old Artillery Ground Whitechapel Whitechapel 2,138
Paddington None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 117,846
Penge Lewisham Croydon 20,375
Plumstead Plumstead Woolwich 52,436
Poplar Poplar Poplar 56,383
Putney Wandsworth Wandsworth and Clapham 17,771
Ratcliff Limehouse Stepney 14,928
Rolls, Liberty of the Strand Strand 421
Rotherhithe None (Vestry) St Olave 39,255
Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place, Liberty of Holborn Holborn 4,506
St Anne Within the Liberty of Westminster Strand Westminster 12,317
St Botolph without Aldersgate (part, Glasshouse Yard)[notes 2] Holborn London City 779
St Botolph without Aldgate Whitechapel Whitechapel 2,971
St Clement Danes Strand Strand 8,492
St George Hanover Square None (Vestry) St George's 78,364
St George in the East None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 45,795
St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury St Giles None (Poor Law Parish) 39,782
St Katherine by the Tower Whitechapel Whitechapel 182
St Luke None (Vestry) Holborn 42,440
St Martin in the Fields None (Vestry) Strand 14,616
St Mary le Strand Strand Strand 1,549
St Marylebone None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 142,404
St Pancras None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 234,379
St Paul Covent Garden Strand Strand 2,142
St Sepulchre Holborn Holborn 1,972
Savoy, Precinct of the Strand Strand 201
Shadwell Limehouse Stepney 8,123
Shoreditch None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 124,009
Southwark Christchurch St Saviour's St Saviour's 13,264
Southwark St George the Martyr None (Vestry) St Saviour's 59,712
Southwark St Olave St Olave St Olave 2,159
Southwark St Saviour St Saviour's St Saviour's 13,913
Southwark St Thomas St Olave St Olave 752
Spitalfields Whitechapel Whitechapel 22,859
Staple Inn (part)[notes 3] None Holborn 18
Stoke Newington Hackney Hackney 30,936
Streatham Wandsworth Wandsworth and Clapham 42,972
Tooting Graveney Wandsworth Wandsworth and Clapham 5,784
Tower of London Whitechapel Whitechapel 868
Tower Without, Old Whitechapel Whitechapel 65
Wandsworth Wandsworth Wandsworth and Clapham 46,717
Wapping Limehouse Stepney 2,123
Westminster St James None (Vestry) Westminster 24,995
Westminster St Margaret and St John Westminster St George's 55,539
Westminster St Peter, Close of the Collegiate Church of None St George's 235
Whitechapel (part)[notes 4] Whitechapel Whitechapel 32,284
Woolwich None (Vestry) Woolwich 40,848

Notes

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  1. ^ Partly in the City of London; total population 121
  2. ^ Partly in the City of London; total population 2,440
  3. ^ Partly in the City of London; total population 21
  4. ^ Partly in the City of London; total population 32,326

References

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  1. ^ a b c Population. Administrative counties, England and Wales. Vol. I, 1891
  2. ^ Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Vol. I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.