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Penge was a civil parish and a local government district located to the southeast of London, England. It included the settlements of Penge , Anerley and part of Crystal Palace . It was part of the London postal district , Metropolitan Police District and, from 1933, the London Passenger Transport Area .
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.
The building became the headquarters of the new Penge Urban District formed in 1900, [7] and was significantly extended by the creation of three extra bays to the northwest at a cost of £3,229 to incorporate a council chamber and committee rooms in 1911. [8] Further changes were made to create a courtroom for petty sessions in 1925. [8]
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 ...
Harriet Staunton (née Richardson) died in a Penge lodging house on 13 April, five days after her one-year-old child, Thomas Staunton, died of malnutrition at Guy's Hospital. In September of the same year, Harriet's husband Louis Staunton was convicted of wilful murder at the Old Bailey together with his partner Alice Rhodes, his brother ...
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]
Beckenham and Penge is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested in the 2024 general election .
The Kensington borough covered 2,291 acres (9.3 km 2) once part of Kensal New Town (a detached part of Chelsea before 1901) became incorporated.The population of Kensington recorded in the Census, which excludes Kensal New Town before 1901, was: