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of a line drawn along the centre of the roadway of
Pentonville Road, North Street, Collier Street, and
Winchester Street, taking in exchange from Islington
all that portion of their parish south of a line
drawn along the centre of the roadway of Richard
Street and Wynford Road. To give to St. Pancras
the portion of Rowton House in the Parish, and
to take the portion of the Parcels Post Office in
their Parish. To give to Holborn all that portion
of the parish situated west of a line drawn along
the centre of the roadway of Warner Street, Back
Hill, Clerkenwell Road, and Farringdon Road, and
to take all that portion of their parish situate east
of that line as far as and including the Metropolitan
Railway Co. An inquiry was subsequently held on
the 18th and 19th December by T. R. Colquhoun
Dill, Esq., Assistant Commissioner, when the
Chairman of the Board being deputed to conduct the
case on behalf of the Vestry, the Vestry was represented
by the Sub-Committee, and their proposals
were eventually adopted by the Commissioners,
with the exception that a portion of the boundary
with Holborn was altered from Back Hill to Little
Saffron Hill.
On the 16th October a public inquiry was held
at the Hornsey District Council's Offices in
Southwood Lane, Highgate, with the view to the
preparation of a draft order in Council in accordance
with section 18 of the Act, which requires
that any part of the County of London wholly surrounded
by any other county shall be transferred
thereto. A letter, dated 14th December, was received
from the Commissioners, stating that after
careful consideration they had arrived at the conclusion
that the detached part of Clerkenwell at
Muswell Hill should be annexed to the Parish of
Hornsey.