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class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=St._Leonard,_Shoreditch_Act_1858&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Leonard, Shoreditch Act 1858">St. Leonard, Shoreditch Act 1858</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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table{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-former-subdiv-flagarms tbody tr:first-child td{width:50%;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-former-subdiv-fake-li{text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal}</style><table class="infobox ib-former-subdiv vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Shoreditch<div class="ib-former-subdiv-native nickname">St Leonard</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"> • 1881</span></th><td class="infobox-data">648 acres (2.62 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1901</span></th><td class="infobox-data">658 acres (2.66 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1961</span></th><td class="infobox-data">659 acres (2.67 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1881</span></th><td class="infobox-data">126,591</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1901</span></th><td class="infobox-data">118,637</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1961</span></th><td class="infobox-data">40,455</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Density</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1881</span></th><td class="infobox-data">195/acre</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1901</span></th><td class="infobox-data">180/acre</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • 1961</span></th><td class="infobox-data">61/acre</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • Origin</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ancient parish</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • Abolished</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1965</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Coterminous with <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Shoreditch" title="Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch">Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch</a> from 1900<br />Replaced by <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hackney" title="London Borough of Hackney">London Borough of Hackney</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">Civil parish</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Government</th><td class="infobox-data">Vestry of the Parish of Shoreditch (1855—1900)<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"> • <a href="/wiki/Administrative_centre" title="Administrative centre">HQ</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">Town Hall, Old Street</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shoreditch (St Leonard)</b> was an ancient <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parish</a> in the county of <a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a>. It was both a <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a>, used for administrative purposes, and an <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_parish" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecclesiastical parish">ecclesiastical parish</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>. The parish church is <a href="/wiki/St_Leonard%27s,_Shoreditch" title="St Leonard's, Shoreditch">St Leonard's, Shoreditch</a>, often simply called "Shoreditch Church". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civil_parish">Civil parish</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shoreditch_(parish)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Civil parish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shoreditch_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Shoreditch_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg/220px-Shoreditch_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Shoreditch_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg/330px-Shoreditch_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Shoreditch_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg/440px-Shoreditch_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="840" data-file-height="932" /></a><figcaption>A map showing the wards of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.</figcaption></figure> <p>The civil parish was within the <a href="/wiki/Ossulstone" title="Ossulstone">Ossulstone</a> hundred and, from the 17th century, the <a href="/wiki/Tower_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Tower division">Tower division</a>. It was entrusted with various administrative functions from the 17th century. The <a href="/wiki/Vestry" title="Vestry">vestry</a> also had responsibility for highways and burials. In 1855 the parish was included in the area of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Board_of_Works" title="Metropolitan Board of Works">Metropolitan Board of Works</a>, and the vestry elected two members of the board. </p><p>Under the <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_Management_Act_1855" title="Metropolis Management Act 1855">Metropolis Management Act 1855</a> any parish that exceeded 2,000 <a href="/wiki/Rates_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Rates in the United Kingdom">ratepayers</a> was to be divided into wards; as such the incorporated vestry of St Leonard Shoreditch was divided into eight wards (electing <a href="/wiki/Vestrymen" class="mw-redirect" title="Vestrymen">vestrymen</a>): No. 1 or Moorfields (18), No. 2 or Church (21), No. 3 or Hoxton (21), No. 4 or Wenlock (18), No. 5 or Whitmore (12), No. 6 or Kingsland (12), No. 7 or Haggerstone (9) and No. 8 or Acton (9).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1889 the parish was included in the new <a href="/wiki/County_of_London" title="County of London">County of London</a>, and in 1899 the civil vestry were dissolved, and the parish became the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Shoreditch" title="Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch">Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch</a>. </p><p>The civil parish covered 648 acres (262 ha). The populations recorded in National Censuses were: </p><p><b>Shoreditch St Leonard's Vestry 1801–1899</b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td>1801</td> <td>1811</td> <td>1821</td> <td>1831</td> <td>1841</td> <td>1851</td> <td>1861</td> <td>1871</td> <td>1881</td> <td>1891</td> <td>1901 </td></tr> <tr> <th>Population</th> <th>34,766</th> <th>43,930</th> <th>52,966</th> <th>68,564</th> <th>83,432</th> <th>109,257</th> <th>129,364</th> <th>127,164</th> <th>126,591</th> <th>124,009</th> <th>118,668 </th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Poor_law">Poor law</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shoreditch_(parish)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Poor law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Leonard_-_Poor_relief_1863.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/St_Leonard_-_Poor_relief_1863.jpg/220px-St_Leonard_-_Poor_relief_1863.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/St_Leonard_-_Poor_relief_1863.jpg/330px-St_Leonard_-_Poor_relief_1863.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/St_Leonard_-_Poor_relief_1863.jpg/440px-St_Leonard_-_Poor_relief_1863.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>The Hoxton Street façade of the former Shoreditch workhouse. The site stretches to Kingsland Road, where many of the buildings remain as Saint Leonard's hospital.</figcaption></figure> <p>The precursor of the Saint Leonard's workhouse was housed in several houses in Hoxton. In 1731, that site housed 84 inmates. Saint Leonard's new, three-story workhouse (with infirmary and apothecary) was opened in 1777, thanks to a levy tax passed by an <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Parliament">Act of Parliament</a> in 1774. The Shoreditch Vestry built this workhouse on the Parish Poor Trustees' "Land of Promise," on <a href="/wiki/Kingsland_Road" title="Kingsland Road">Kingsland Road</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>St Leonard's parish circumvented the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, because it was administered under its own Act. In 1847, a sub-committee of Parliament found the conditions in the workhouse to be very poor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ecclesiastical_parish">Ecclesiastical parish</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shoreditch_(parish)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ecclesiastical parish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg/220px-Shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg/330px-Shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg/440px-Shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>St Leonard's parish church. (January 2006)</figcaption></figure> <p>St Leonard's parish was within the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_London" title="Diocese of London">Diocese of London</a>. As the population increased the parish was divided:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>In 1830 the areas of <a href="/wiki/Haggerston" title="Haggerston">Haggerston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hoxton" title="Hoxton">Hoxton</a> were constituted as separate parishes.</li> <li>In 1841 a new parish of "St James, Curtain Road" was created.</li> <li>In 1848 part of Saint Leonard's parish helped to form the parish of "St Mark, Old Street".</li> <li>In 1862 St Leonard's parish was again divided to create the parish of "Shoreditch, St Michael".</li> <li>In 1866 a new parish of "Holy Trinity, Shoreditch" was formed from part of Saint Leonard's and part of neighbouring parish of <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Bethnal_Green" title="Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green">Bethnal Green</a>.</li> <li>In 1872 the parish of "Shoreditch, St Agatha" was created from part of Saint James, Curtain Road.</li></ul> <p>Later decreases in population led to a number of these parishes being combined in the 20th century. 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