Municipal Borough of Tottenham

Tottenham
Tottenham within Middlesex in 1961
Geography
Status	Local board (1850 – 1894) Urban district (1894 – 1934) Municipal borough (after 1934)
1894 area	3,014 acres (12.2 km2)
1965 area	3,012 acres (12.2 km2)
HQ	Tottenham
History
Created	1850
Abolished	1965
Succeeded by	London Borough of Haringey
Demography
1901 population	102,703
1961 population	113,249
Coat of arms of the borough council

Tottenham was a local government district in north east Middlesex from 1850 to 1965. It was part of the London postal district and Metropolitan Police District.

In 1850 a local board of health was established for the civil parish of Tottenham and in 1875 the local board became an urban sanitary authority, without change of name. The ancient parish had included Wood Green^[1] and in 1888 the district was divided, with Wood Green gaining its own local board.

The sanitary district was reconstituted as an urban district in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894 and Wood Green was removed from the parish.^[1] In 1934 the urban district was incorporated as a municipal borough.^[2] In 1965, the municipal borough was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London under the London Government Act 1963 to be combined with that of other districts to form the present-day London Borough of Haringey.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Vision of Britain - Tottenham parish (historic map). Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
2. ^ Vision of Britain - Tottenham UD/MB. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.

External links

• Tottenham Local Government, Victoria County History of Middlesex (British History Online)

Coordinates: 51°35′31″N 0°04′19″W / 51.592°N 0.072°W / 51.592; -0.072