A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TOWER-HAMLETS, a metropolitan parliamentary borough; constituted by the reform act of 1832, and then made conterminate with the Tower division of Ossulstone hundred; but reconstituted by the reform act of 1867, and then divided into two boroughs, Tower-Hamlets and Hackney. The borough, from 1832 till 1867, sent two members to parliament. Electors in 1833, 9,906; in 1863, 30,269.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a metropolitan parliamentary borough" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Tower Hamlets LB |
| Place: | Tower Hamlets |
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