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The Penge Vestry favoured transfer to Surrey, ranking transfer to Kent or amalgamation with Croydon as the next preferred options. Amalgamation with Camberwell was the least preferred option. Issues raised during the enquiry included the rates , earlier pub closing hours outside London, the desire to remain in the Croydon poor law union and the ...
This is a list of local authorities in London, England, from 1855 to 1900.There were some changes to their number between 1886 and 1894. Following the changes there were 42 authorities responsible for local government, made up of 29 administrative vestries, 12 district boards and one local board of health.
Penge formed a part of the parish of Battersea, with the historic county boundary between Kent and Surrey forming its eastern boundary. [16] In 1855 both parts of the parish were included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with Penge Hamlet Vestry electing six members to the Lewisham District Board of Works. [17]
Penge Common was an area of north east Surrey and north west Kent which now forms part of London, England; covering most of Penge, all of Anerley, and parts of surrounding suburbs including South Norwood. [1] It abutted the Great North Wood and John Rocque's 1745 map of London and its environs showed that Penge Common now included part of that ...
A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry". At their height, the vestries were the only form of local government in many places ...
Saint John the Evangelist is the Church of England parish church of Penge (now in the London Borough of Bromley), in the Diocese of Rochester, Greater London. At the time of its erection, Penge was in Surrey and had been an exclave of Battersea. It is located on Penge High Street, and was erected 1847 to designs of architects Edwin Nash & J. N ...
Satirical cartoon of the select vestry of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Thomas Jones 1828 Whilst the open vestry was a general meeting of all inhabitant rate-paying householders in a parish, [ 1 ] in the 17th century the huge growth of population in some parishes, mostly urban, made it increasingly difficult to convene and conduct meetings.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Kensington Vestry 1801–1899. Year [6] 1801: 1811: 1821 ...