A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
STRAND, a district in Middlesex; forming part of the metropolis, immediately W of Temple Bar; cut into four sub-districts, and containing St. Anne-Soho, St. Paul-Covent-Garden, St. Mary-le-Strand, and St. Clement-Danes parishes, St. John-Baptist-Savoy precinct, the Rolls liberty, Clements Inn, New Inn, and the Middle Temple. Acres, 172; of which 32 are in the Thames. Poor rates in 1863, £31,164. Pop. in 1851, 44,417; in 1861, 42,979. Houses, 3,775. Marriages in 1863, 437; births, 1,298,-of which 38 were illegitimate; deaths, 1,092,-of which 450 were at ages under 5 years, and 10 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 3,891; births, 12,856; deaths, 10,341. The places of worship, in 1851, were 9 of the Church of England, with 6,858 sittings: 2 of Independents, with 1,750 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 1,170 s.; 1 of Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, with 500 s.; 1 of Lutherans, with 600 s.; 1 of Roman Catholics, with 960 s.; and 1 of Jews, with 160 s. The schools were 14 public day-schools, with 2,744 scholars; 32 private day-schools, with 849 s.; 9 Sunday schools, with 1,308 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 3 s. The workhouse is in the Tottenham-Court sub-district of Pancras district.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Strand RegD/PLU Middlesex AncC |
| Place: | Strand |
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