Metropolitan Borough of Westminster

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The Metropolitan Borough of Westminster was a metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965.

It was abolished in 1965 and its area became part of the London Borough also to be known as the City of Westminster along with the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone.

City status

By royal charter dated 29th October 1900 the borough was granted the title City of Westminster. Westminster had originally been created a city and seat of the shortlived Diocese of Westminster in 1541. The diocese was suppressed in 1550, but the area was still known as a "city", although without official sanction.

Area

It consisted of the area that is now part of the City of Westminster and south of Oxford Street and Bayswater Road. It included Soho, Mayfair, St. James's, The Strand, Westminster, Pimlico, Belgravia, and Hyde Park.

It was formed from various parishes:

St Anne within the Liberty of Westminster (usually known as St Anne's Soho)
St Clement Danes
St George Hanover Square
St Martin in the Fields
St Mary le Strand
St Paul Covent Garden
St James Westminster (usually called St James Piccadilly)
St Margaret and St John Westminster
And the extra parochial places of the Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter (or Westminster Abbey), the Precinct of the Savoy and the Liberty of the Rolls.

Previous to the borough's formation it had been administered by five separate local bodies.

External link

[Metropolitan Borough of Westminster at Vision of Britain]

County of London

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