Glasshouse Yard
The Liberty of Glasshouse Yard was an extra-parochial liberty adjacent to the City of London. The liberty took its name from a glass manufacturing works established there. The area now forms part of the London Borough of Islington.
| Glasshouse Yard | |
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A map showing the civil parishes of the Metropolis districts of St. Giles and Holborn as they appeared in 1870. Glasshouse Yard is the green area on the far right. | |
| Area | |
| • 1801–1911 | 5.6 acres (0.023 km2) |
| • Coordinates | 51°31′17″N 0°05′53″W |
| Population | |
| • 1801 | 1,221 |
| • 1841 | 1,415 |
| • 1881 | 931 |
| • 1911 | 463 |
| History | |
| • Created | Seventeenth century |
| • Abolished | 1915 |
| • Succeeded by | Finsbury |
| Status | Civil parish, liberty, extra-parochial area |
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