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The north-eastern boundary is the main road
from London to Edgware from a point nearly 300
yds. below the London and North-Western Railway,
known as Kilburn Gate, to the Welsh Harp Reservoir
at Hendon, a distance of over 3 miles.
At the beginning of the year 1895, the Willesden
Local Board of the previous twenty years had
ceased to exist, and the Willesden Urban District
Council commenced.
With the change on January 1st, there was also
a change in the number and area of the Wards, the
Local Board, consisting of fifteen members and four
Wards, being replaced by the District Council with
twenty-one members and seven Wards.
As the census of 1891 dealt with the population
in the four Wards, it has not been found possible to
give the population of the new areas, as they were
at that time, and therefore no reference can be made
indicating the increase of each, but the progress of
the District generally has apparently made a greater
stride than hitherto, the estimated increase of population
being 5,620, nearly 900 more than the increase
of the previous year. From 1881 to 1891, the average
yearly increase was 3,365.