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St. Giles District and the Borough of Westminster were
dealt with in part. Where the boundary with St. Martinin-the-Fields
was concerned, an agreement was arrived
at by which the boundary of the Parish of St. Giles-in-theFields,
where it joined that of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
in Drury Lane, was advanced a few feet further south, and
taken along the middle of Drury Lane to the middle of
Brokers Alley, and along the middle of Brokers Alley
to where it joined the existing boundary in Castle Street;
and it was agreed, as part of the bargain, that the future
cost of cleansing, lighting, and maintaining the whole of
Brokers Alley, and the whole of the carriage-way of so
much of Castle Street as lies to the east of Langley Street
should be undertaken by the St. Giles District, and the
residue of the carriage-way of Castle Street by the Vestry
of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
The adjustment of boundaries with St. Clement Danes
and the Liberty of the Rolls involved questions of more
serious importance, which were somewhat complicated by
the desire of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
that the whole of what is popularly known as Lincoln's
Inn—that is, the Ville, with New Square, Old Square,
Old Buildings—should be in one and the same Borough.
The Board of Works for the Strand District while
not objecting to this, claimed, in order that some compensation
for the loss of rateable value should take place,
that the whole of the houses on the south side of Lincoln's
Inn Fields with certain houses in Kemble Street and the
block of buildings bounded by Drury Lane on the west,
Kemble Street on the south, Great Wild Street on the
east, and Great Queen Street on the north, should be
transferred to the Borough of Westminster.
The question was thoroughly examined, and after a