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Demographically, Tower Hamlets has a large population of British Bangladeshis, forming the largest single ethnic group in the borough at 32%. [4] The 2011 census showed Tower Hamlets to have the highest proportion of Muslims of any English local authority and was the only location where Muslims outnumbered Christians. [5]
Hackney's traditional boundaries, together with electoral wards as of 1916. Prior to 1994, a small part of Victoria Park was in Hackney, but a minor boundary alteration was made so that the whole park came under the control of Tower Hamlets. [8]
Hackney was a two-seat constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament created under the Representation of the People Act 1867 (often termed Second Reform Act) from the former northern parishes of the Tower Hamlets constituency and abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (often termed a twin Third Reform Act, with its enabling Reform Act 1884).
The name "Tower Hamlets" was subsequently used for the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets created in 1965 from southern areas of the Tower Division. The Shoreditch and Hackney proper areas of the Tower Division together make up most of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney .
The postcode area is roughly the combined area of the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest. Also, the eastern part of the London Borough of Hackney , the western sections of the London Boroughs of Redbridge (E11, E12, E18) and Barking and Dagenham (E6) and a small part of the Epping Forest District (E4), are within the ...
The government will send ministerial envoys into Tower Hamlets Council to tackle failing governance and local accountability. Local government minister Jim McMahon said it was "both necessary and ...
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
Geographically based map of the London Underground in Zone 2 (shown in white) Fare zone 2 is an inner zone of Transport for London's zonal fare system used for calculating the price of tickets for travel on the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway [1] and, since 2007, on National Rail services.