History of Westminster in Middlesex

Place:

Westminster Middlesex

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Westminster. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
JOHN THE EVANGELIST ST	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MARGARET ST WESTMINSTER	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST MARGARET AND ST JOHN WESTMINSTER	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
UPPER ST JAMES PARK	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WESTMINSTER	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WESTMINSTER	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WESTMINSTER BRIDGE STATION	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Westminster. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
00BK	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
ABBEY	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
BERWICK STREET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 317.
CITY OF WESTMINSTER	Local Government District (LB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 311.
	Local Government District (MetB)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 309.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLPar/PLU)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 644.
CITY OF WESTMINSTER AND ITS LIBERTY	Ancient District (AD_City/Liberty)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 648.
CLOSE OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST PETER	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 320.
E140409	Local Government District (LB)
JOHN ST	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
LONDON/WESTMINSTER	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
MARGARET ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
NORTH WESTMINSTER	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
PRIVY GARDENS	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST JAMES WESTMINSTER	Sanitary District (Lon_SDist)	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
ST JOHN	Registration sub-District	1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Ages of Males and Females in Sub-Districts'.
ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST WESTMINSTER	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST JOHN WESTMINSTER	Registration sub-District	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
ST JOHN WESTMINSTER	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781.
ST MARGARET	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST MARGARET	Registration sub-District	1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Ages of Males and Females in Sub-Districts'.
ST MARGARET AND ST JOHN	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 12, 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 649.
	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ST MARGARET AND ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST WESTMINSTER	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
ST MARGARET AND ST JOHN WESTMINSTER	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	Poor Law Board, Poor Law Returns to Parliament pre 1871 (HMSO)
ST MARGARET AND ST JOHN WESTMINSTER	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781.
ST MARGARET WESTMINSTER	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
	Registration sub-District	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781.
THE CLOSE OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST PETER	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
VERGE OF THE PALACES OF ST JAMES AND WHITEHALL	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
VERGE OF THE PALACES OF ST JAMESS AND WHITEHALL	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
VERGE OF THE PALACES OF WHITEHALL AND ST JAMESS	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
WESTMINISTER ST MARGARETS	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781.
WESTMINSTER	Ancient District (Borough)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 648.
	Ancient District (AD_City/Liberty)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
	Constituency (PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Local Government District (LB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 311.
	Local Government District (MetB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 645.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1961 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Acreage, Population, Private Households and Dwellings', for 'LAA, Wards, CP in RD, Con, NT'.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 644.
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781.
	Sanitary District (Lon_SDist)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 645.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
WESTMINSTER ABBEY	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
WESTMINSTER CHRIST CHURCH BROADWAY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER CITY OF	Local Government District (MetB)	1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Industries of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)'.
WESTMINSTER CITY OF	Local Government District (LB)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
WESTMINSTER NORTH	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
WESTMINSTER NORTH	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for England, Fifith Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 2009)
WESTMINSTER ST ANDREW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST JAMES	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST JAMES THE LESS HOLY TRINITY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST JAMES THE LESS UPPER GARDEN STREET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST LUKE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST LUKE BERWICK STREET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST MARGARET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office)
WESTMINSTER ST MARGARET AND ST JOHN	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST MARGARET AND ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. p348.
WESTMINSTER ST MATTHEW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST SAVIOUR AND ST JAMES THE LESS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST STEPHEN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WESTMINSTER ST STEPHEN WITH ST JOHN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 348.
WHITEHALL	Parish-level Unit (ExP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Westminster, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Westminster, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Westminster in Middlesex | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/716/names

Date accessed: 24th April 2024