Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch

Shoreditch
Shoreditch Town Hall
Shoreditch shown within the County of London
Area
• 1911/1931	658 acres (2.66 km2)
• 1961	659 acres (2.67 km2)
Population
• 1911	111,390
• 1931	97,042
• 1961	40,455
Density
• 1911	169/acre
• 1931	147/acre
• 1961	61/acre
History
• Origin	Shoreditch and Norton Folgate
• Created	1899
• Abolished	1965
• Succeeded by	London Borough of Hackney
Status	Metropolitan borough
Government	Shoreditch Borough Council
• HQ	Old Street
• Motto	More Light, More Power
Coat of Arms adopted by the Borough Council
Map of borough boundary

The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1899 and 1965, when it was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington and the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney to form the London Borough of Hackney.

The borough was made up of three main districts, Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston, and covered much of the north-western and northern East End of London. An individual coat of arms was never granted to the metropolitan borough council; they adopted the arms of the second lord of the manor of Shoreditch, John de Northampton.