Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
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County of London | |
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Status: | Metropolitan borough |
Admin. HQ: | Mare Street |
Created: | 1900 |
Abolished: | 1965 |
Successor: | London Borough of Hackney |
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. Its area became part of the London Borough of Hackney.
The borough comprised the parish of Hackney replacing the parish vestry which previously administered the area.
It included the districts of Hackney, Clapton, Homerton, Dalston and Kingsland.
It bordered the metropolitan boroughs of Stoke Newington, Islington, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and Poplar. It had a border with Essex and the Municipal Borough of Leyton to the east and Middlesex and the Municipal Borough of Tottenham to the north.