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|Name= Ealing
|Motto= Respice Prospice (Look backward, look forward)
|HQ= Ealing
|Status= [[Local board of health]]
|Start= 1863
|End= 1965
|Replace= [[London Borough of Ealing]]
|Arms= [[
|Image= [[File:Town hall ealing 804.JPG|250px|Ealing Town Hall]] <br /> [[Ealing Town Hall]]
|AreaFirst= {{convert|2947|acre|sqkm|1}} ▼
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|PopulationLast= 183,077
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'''Ealing''' was a local government district from
==History==
A [[local board of health]] was formed for the southern part of the parish of Ealing, [[Middlesex]], in
It was created an [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]] in 1894, by the [[Local Government Act 1894]]. In 1901 it was granted a
[[Ealing Town Hall]] was built in 1886, replacing an earlier hall on the same site. The architect was [[Charles Jones (architect)|Charles Jones]], who also designed several other buildings and features in the borough.
The borough was greatly enlarged in [[1926]] when it absorbed the urban districts of [[Greenford Urban District|Greenford]] (including the [[civil parish|parishes]] of [[Perivale]] and [[West Twyford]]) and [[Hanwell Urban District|Hanwell]].<ref>F. A. Youngs, ''Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England'', Vol.I: Southern England, London, 1979</ref> Accordingly the size of the borough council was increased: by 1960 it consisted of a mayor, 16 aldermen and 48 councillors.<ref name="vch"/>▼
▲The borough was greatly enlarged in
In 1965, under the [[London Government Act 1963]], the municipal borough was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London to be combined with the [[Municipal Borough of Acton]] and [[Municipal Borough of Southall]] to form the present-day [[London Borough of Ealing]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ealing London Borough: Relationships and Changes|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10026519|website=A Vision of Britain Through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=26 August 2016}}</ref> An oak in its coat of arms features, smaller, in the [[coat of arms of the London Borough of Ealing]].
==Coat of arms==
Granted on 22 February 1902, the Municipal Borough's [[coat of arms]] (not to be confused with the modern borough's coat of arms) was: Per [[Chevron (insignia)|chevron]] [[Gules (heraldry)|gules]] and [[Argent (heraldry)|argent]], in dexter [[Chief (heraldry)|chief]] two swords in saltire and in sinister chief three seaxes (Saxon swords) fessewise in [[Pale (heraldry)|pale]] all proper, with pommels and hilts [[Or (heraldry)|or]], and in base an [[oak]] tree eradicated (uprooted) also proper. The crossed swords are the symbol of [[Paul (apostle)|Saint Paul]] and taken from the arms of the [[Diocese of London|See of London]], to which the manor historically belonged. The seaxes are from the arms of the county of [[Middlesex]], and the tree was a symbol that Ealing is growing and flourishing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Ealing|title=Coat of arms of Ealing|publisher=Heraldry of the World|access-date=16 April 2015}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Local Government Act 1894]]▼
* [[London Government Act 1963]]▼
==References==
;Notes
{{Reflist}}
;Bibliography
▲*Local Government Act 1894
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▲*London Government Act 1963
* {{cite book |last=Youngs |first= Frederic A Jr. |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England |year=1979 |publisher=[[Royal Historical Society]] |location=London |isbn=0-901050-67-9}}
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==External links==
* [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10108056 A Vision of Britain - Ealing UD/MB]
{{London Government Act 1963}}
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[[Category:Districts abolished by the London Government Act 1963|Ealing]]
[[Category:Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894|Ealing]]
[[Category:Local Government Districts created by the Local Government Act 1858|Ealing]]
[[Category:History of the London Borough of Ealing]]
[[Category:Municipal boroughs of England]]
[[Category:History of local government in Middlesex]]
[[Category:Hanwell]]
[[Category:Perivale]]
[[Category:Northolt]]
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