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Shoreditch (St Leonard) was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It was both a civil parish, used for administrative purposes, and an ecclesiastical parish of the Church of England.
Civil parish
The civil parish was entrusted with various administrative functions from the 17th century. In 1837 it became a Poor Law parish, with its own workhouse. The vestry also had responsibility for highways and burials. In 1855 the parish was included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the vestry elected two members of the board. In 1889 the parish was included in the new County of London, and in 1899 the civil vestry were dissolved, and the parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
The civil parish covered 648 acres. It had a population, recorded in the Census, as follows:
- 1801: 34,766
- 1811: 43,930
- 1821: 52,966
- 1831: 68,564
- 1841: 83,432
- 1851: 109,257
- 1861: 129,364
- 1871: 127,164
- 1881: 126,591
- 1891: 124,009
- 1901: 118,668
Ecclesiastical parish
St Leonard's parish was in the Diocese of London. As the population increased the parish was divided:
- In 1830 the areas of Haggerston and Hoxton were constituted as separate parishes.
- In 1841 a new parish of St James, Curtain Road was created.
- In 1848 part of St Leonard's parish helped to form the parish of St Mark, Old Street.
- In 1862 St Leonard's parish was again divided to create the parish of Shoreditch, St Michael.
- In 1866 a new parish of Shoreditch, Holy Trinity was formed from part of St Leonard's and part of neighbouring Bethnal Green.
- In 1872 the parish of Shoreditch, St Agatha was created from part of St James, Curtain Road.
Later decreases in population led to a number of these parishes being combined in the 20th century. For instance, in 1915 St Agatha's parish was absorbed by St James, and in 1972 a merged parish of Shoreditch, St Leonard with St Michael was formed.
The names of some of the ecclesiastical parishes were used to give names to wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
Sources
- Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.1, Frederic Youngs, London, 1979
- Statistical Abstract for London, Vol. IV, October 1901.