Municipal Borough of Surbiton

Surbiton
Surbiton Town Hall
Area
• 1894	3,046 acres (12.3 km²)
• 1965	4,710 acres (19.1 km²)
Population
• 1901	15,017
• 1961	62,977
History
• Created	1855
• Abolished	1965
• Succeeded by	Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Status	Improvement Commissioners District(1855 - 1894) Urban district (1894 - 1936) Municipal borough (after 1936)

• Motto	Consilio Et Animis (By Wisdom and Courage)

Surbiton was a local government district in northeast Surrey, United Kingdom from 1855 to 1965.

Creation

Until 1855 Surbiton was administered as part of the parish of Kingston upon Thames. In that year a body of improvement commissioners was formed by a local act of parliament to govern the area.^[1]

Changes

The Local Government Act 1894 reconstituted the Improvement Commissioners District as an urban district, and Surbiton Urban District Council was formed to replace the commissioners.

The parishes of Hook and Tolworth were added from the short-lived Kingston Rural District in 1895 and Chessington was added in 1933, transferred from Epsom Rural District. In 1936 the town was granted a charter of incorporation to become a municipal borough.

Abolition

Surbiton formed part of the review area of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London. The transfer to Greater London was supported by Surbiton Borough Council and opposed by Surrey County Council.^[2] In 1965 it was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London to be merged into an expanded Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

The former town hall in Ewell Road still survives, with the winged lion from the crest of the borough's arms in the façade. The building is now used as a Sessions House, and is Grade II listed.^[3]

Coat of arms

The borough's coat of arms was: Azure an elm tree proper in front of a sun ascendant or. The supporters were two stags proper, and the crest was a winged lion couchant above a bridge proper. The arms survives in a stained glass window of Surbiton's parish church of Saint Mark.^[4]

References

↑ Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891, p.1497 (Historical Directories), accessed February 5, 2008
↑ HC Deb 18 May 1962 vol 659 cc156-7W
↑ Historic England. "Sessions House (1358440)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
↑ "Stained glass - Coat of arms for Borough of Surbiton". Flickr. Retrieved 28 January 2015.

Vision of Britain

Local government districts abolished or transferred by the London Government Act 1963

London CC	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green Camberwell Chelsea Deptford Finsbury Fulham Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Islington Kensington Lambeth Lewisham Paddington Poplar Shoreditch Southwark St. Marylebone St. Pancras Stepney Stoke Newington Wandsworth Westminster Woolwich	Constituent parts of Greater London

Essex	Barking Chigwell (part) Chingford Dagenham East Ham Hornchurch Ilford Leyton Romford Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford West Ham

Hertfordshire	Barnet East Barnet

Middlesex, CC	Acton Brentford and Chiswick Ealing Edmonton Enfield Feltham Finchley Friern Barnet Harrow Hayes and Harlington Hendon Heston and Isleworth Hornsey Ruislip-Northwood Southall Southgate Tottenham Twickenham Uxbridge Wembley Willesden Wood Green Yiewsley and West Drayton

Kent	Beckenham Bexley Bromley Chislehurst and Sidcup Crayford Erith Orpington Penge

Surrey	Barnes Beddington and Wallington Carshalton Coulsdon and Purley Croydon Kingston-upon-Thames Malden and Coombe Merton and Morden Mitcham Sutton and Cheam Surbiton Richmond Wimbledon

Transfers	Middlesex to Hertfordshire: Potters Bar Middlesex to Surrey: Staines Sunbury-on-Thames

Coordinates: 51°22′30″N 0°17′49″W / 51.375°N 0.297°W / 51.375; -0.297

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