Registration Districts in London

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN GREATER LONDON

The list below shows the civil registration districts in Greater London since 1965.

For the purposes of these pages, "Greater London" refers to the administrative county of that name, which was formed on 1.4.1965 out of the county of London and parts of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex and Hertfordshire.

Click on a district name in the table below to see the places and dates covered, or see the Index of Place Names for the whole of England and Wales.

Registration DIstrct	Registration County	From	To	Comments
Barking	Greater London	1965	1980	Created 1.4.1965 out of Romford and Ilford registration districts. Renamed 1.4.1980 to become Barking & Dagenham registration district.
Barking & Dagenham	Greater London	1980		Created 1.4.1980 by renaming Barking registration district.
Barnet	Greater London	1965		Transferred from Hertfordshire on 1.4.1965.
Bethnal Green	Greater London	1965	1965	Abolished 1.1.1966 and added to Poplar & Bethnal Green registration district.
Bexley	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Sidcup and Dartford registration districts.
Brent	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 from Willesden registration district.
Bromley	Greater London	1965
Camberwell	Greater London	1965	1991	Abolished 1.10.1991 and added to Southwark registration district.
Camden	Greater London	1977		Created 1.10.1977 from Hampstead and St. Pancras registration districts.
Chelsea	Greater London	1965	1981	Abolished 1.7.1981 and added to Kensington & Chelsea registration district.
Croydon	Greater London	1965
Deptford	Greater London	1965	1966	Abolished 1.7.1966 and added to Lewisham registration district.
Ealing	Greater London	1965
East Ham	Greater London	1965	1967	Abolished 1.1.1968 and added to Newham registration district.
Enfield	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Edmonton and Wood Green registration districts.
Fulham	Greater London	1965	2000	Abolished 1.1.2001 and added to Hammersmith & Fulham registration district.
Greenwich	Greater London	1965
Hackney	Greater London	1965
Hammersmith	Greater London	1965	2000	Abolished 1.1.2001 and added to Hammersmith & Fulham registration district.
Hammersmith & Fulham	Greater London	2001		Created 1.1.2001 from Hammersmith and Fulham registration districts.
Hampstead	Greater London	1965	1977	Abolished 1.10.1977 and added to Camden registration district.
Haringey	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Wood Green and Edmonton registration districts.
Harrow	Greater London	1965
Havering	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Romford registration district.
Hendon	Greater London	1965	1999	Abolished 1.4.1999 and added to Barnet registration district.
Hillingdon	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Uxbridge and Harrow registration districts.
Hounslow	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Ealing and Middlesex South registration districts.
Islington	Greater London	1965
Kensington	Greater London	1965	1981	Abolished 1.7.1981 and added to Kensington & Chelsea registration district.
Kensington & Chelsea	Greater London	1981		Created 1.7.1981 from Kensington and Chelsea registration districts.
Kingston upon Thames	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Surrey Northern registration district.
Lambeth	Greater London	1965
Lewisham	Greater London	1965
London City	Greater London	1965
Merton	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Surrey North-Eastern registration district.
Newham	Greater London	1968		Created 1.1.1968 out of West Ham and East Ham registration districts.
Paddington	Greater London	1965	1977	Abolished 1.1.1978 and added to Westminster registration district.
Poplar	Greater London	1965	1965	Abolished 1.1.1966 and added to Poplar & Bethnal Green registration district.
Poplar & Bethnal Green	Greater London	1966	1982	Created 1.1.1966 from Poplar and Bethnal Green registration districts. Abolished 1.1.1983 and added to Tower Hamlets registration district.
Redbridge	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Ilford, Essex South Western, Epping and Romford registration districts.
Richmond upon Thames	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Middlesex South and Surrey Northern registration districts.
Southwark	Greater London	1965
St. Marylebone	Greater London	1965	1977	Abolished 1.1.1978 and added to Westminster registration district.
St. Pancras	Greater London	1965	1977	Abolished 1.10.1977 and added to Camden registration district.
Stepney	Greater London	1965	1982	Abolished 1.1.1983 and added to Tower Hamlets registration district.
Stoke Newington	Greater London	1965	1979	Abolished 1.7.1979 and added to Hackney registration district.
Sutton	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Surrey North-Eastern and Surrey Mid-Eastern registration districts.
Tower Hamlets	Greater London	1983		Created 1.1.1983 from Stepney and Poplar & Bethnal Green registration districts.
Waltham Forest	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 out of Essex South Western and Epping registration districts.
Wandsworth	Greater London	1965
West Ham	Greater London	1965	1967	Abolished 1.1.1968 and added to Newham registration district.
Westminster	Greater London	1965		Created 1.4.1965 from City of Westminster registration district.
Woolwich	Greater London	1965	1969	Abolished 1.10.1969 and added to Greenwich registration district.

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