administrative vestries were delineated as the Schedule A vestries in the Metropolis Management Act 1855. The district boards and administrative vestries had identical...

ISBN 0300139373. The London Vestries (PDF). London: The Fabian Society. November 1894. Retrieved 5 September 2024. "London Vestry Elections". London Evening Standard...

election to the vestry or could serve on the district board. One of the responsibilities reserved for the non-administrative vestries was the power to...

tier of local government consisting of parish vestries and district boards of works. The Metropolitan Board of Works was the forerunner of the London County...

establishment of districts in the 1890s, the basic unit of local government in England was the parish, overseen by the parish church vestry committee. Vestries dealt...

the London Government Act divided the County of London into 28 metropolitan boroughs. These replaced the ancient parish vestries and district boards as...

of Bedford. In 1899, the London Government Bill was introduced to Parliament. The bill sought to abolish the vestries and district boards in London and...

Metropolitan Board of Works. The Fulham Vestry and Hammersmith Vestry continued to exist as a non-administrative vestries with their main responsibility to...

function of the parish vestries within the district was to elect the 58 members of the Whitechapel District Board of Works. The parishes (and number of district...

County of London. From 1856 until 1900 the lower tier of local government within the metropolis comprised various parish vestries and district boards; the...