Barnet Urban District
former local government area in the UK
Barnet was a local government district in south Hertfordshire from 1863 to 1965 around the town of Barnet.
Creation
Barnet Local Government District was created on 5 October 1863, after the town's ratepayers decided to adopt the Local Government Act 1858, and it was governed by a local board. Under the Public Health Act 1872 local government districts were also designated as urban sanitary districts. The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) reconstituted the area as an urban district with effect from 31 December 1894, and the local board was replaced by an elected Barnet Urban District Council. The urban district was extended in 1905, 1914 and 1935.
Civil parishes
The district originally consisted of parts of the parishes of Chipping Barnet in Hertfordshire, and Monken Hadley and South Mimms in Middlesex. The Local Government Act 1888 adjusted the county boundaries in 1889, so that the entire district was in Hertfordshire; forming part of a long, thin protrusion into Middlesex surrounded by that county on two sides, to the north and south.
The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Barnet Urban District” is former local government area in the UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Barnet, Urban and District, not as a finished interpretation.
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