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List of civil parishes in the County of London in 1891

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Source revisionApr 10, 2022
Entity authorityQ6610069 ↗
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This is a list of civil parishes in the County of London, excluding the City of London, on the night of the United Kingdom census, 1891. The total population of this area was 4,194,413.

There were 196 civil parishes in the county at large on this date, of which 80 were entirely outside the City, 112 were entirely within the City, and four were partly within the City.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of civil parishes in the County of London in 1891” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.