Local Government of the Metropolis (1855-1889) - Districts (Metropolis), Parishes Governed by Vestries (Metropolis) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Districts (Metropolis), Parishes governed by vestries (Metropolis), Parishes united into districts (Metropolis), Clerkenwell, Newington, London, Metropolitan Board of Works, Metropolis Management Act 1855, Liberty of Norton Folgate, Glasshouse Yard, Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, Stoke Newington, Ratcliff, St Luke's, St Giles District, Holborn District, Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, Shoreditch, Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, Strand District, Precinct of the Savoy, St George in the East, Hackney, St Clement Danes, Southwark St Saviour, Westminster St Margaret and St John, Liberty of the Rolls, Bermondsey, Southwark St John Horsleydown, Southwark St Olave, St Martin in the Fields, St George Hanover Square, St Paul Covent Garden, Lee District, Southwark St George the Martyr, St Olave District, Wandsworth District, St Mary le Strand, Limehouse District, Greenwich District, Whitechapel District, Hackney District, Westminster St James, St Anne Within the Liberty of Westminster, Fulham District, Lewisham District, St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr, St Saviour's District, Southwark Christchurch, Mile End New Town, St Sepulchre. Excerpt: Clerkenwell ( ) is an area of central London in the London Borough of Islington. From 1900 to 1965 it was part of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. The well after which it was named was rediscovered in 1924. The watchmaking and watch repairing trades were once of great importance. Clerkenwell was once known as London's "Little Italy" because of the large number of Italians living in the area from the 1850s until the 1960s. Clerkenwell took its name from the Clerks' Well in Farringdon Lane (clerken was the Middle English genitive plural of clerk, a variant of clerc, meaning literat...