Glasshouse Yard
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The Liberty of Glasshouse Yard was an extra-parochial liberty adjacent to the City of London. The liberty took its name from a glass manufacturing works established there.[3][4][5] The area now forms part of the London Borough of Islington.
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Glasshouse Yard | |
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A map showing the civil parishes of the Metropolis districts of St. Giles and Holborn as they appeared in 1870. Glasshouse Yard is the green area on the far right. | |
Area | |
• 1801–1911[1] | 5.6 acres (0.023 km2) |
• Coordinates | 51°31′17″N 0°05′53″W |
Population | |
• 1801[1] | 1,221 |
• 1841[1] | 1,415 |
• 1881[1] | 931 |
• 1911[1][2] | 463 |
History | |
• Created | Seventeenth century |
• Abolished | 1915 |
• Succeeded by | Finsbury |
Status | Civil parish, liberty, extra-parochial area |
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