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New Brentford was first described as the county town of Middlesex in 1789, on the basis that it was the location of elections of knights for the shire (or Members of Parliament (MPs)) from 1701. [19] In 1795 New Brentford (as it was then) was "considered as the county-town; but there is no town-hall or other public building" causing confusion ...
Map showing boundaries of Middlesex in 1851 and 1911, aside from minor realignments. The small yellow area in the North is Monken Hadley, which was transferred to Hertfordshire; the larger yellow area in the Southeast was transferred to the newly created County of London in 1889. Map in 1882 shows complete urbanisation of the East End
Brentford and Chiswick; Chiswick Town Hall: Brentford and Chiswick within Middlesex in 1961: Area • 1931: 2,341 acres (9.5 km 2) • 1961: 2,333 acres (9.4 km 2) Population • 1921: 57,970 (equivalent area) • 1961: 54,833: History • Created: 1927 • Abolished: 1965 • Succeeded by: London Borough of Hounslow: Status: Urban district ...
The historic county of Middlesex, England divided into the six hundreds. List of the parishes in Middlesex, grouped by hundred, as of 1831.. The historic county of Middlesex was recorded in the Domesday Book as being divided into the six hundreds of Edmonton, Elthorne, Gore, Hounslow (Isleworth in all later records), [1] Ossulstone and Spelthorne, as follows:
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s.The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
the Middlesex constituency latterly covering the north, west and south-west of the county returning 2 MPs was replaced by 7 single-member seats. Local government bodies In 1889 the 40 urban constituencies that comprised the south-eastern part fell into (for local government) a County of London save for the much smaller City of London which ...
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The area was transferred from Middlesex to Greater London to become one of the 32 London Boroughs. The new borough was named Hounslow after the town at the centre of the new borough. [ 3 ] The old Heston and Isleworth district had nearly been renamed Hounslow in 1927; a large majority of voters in a referendum had supported the change of name ...