Editing Westminster (section)

====Metropolitan Borough of Westminster====
[[File:Westminster City Hall, Victoria Street SW1 - geograph.org.uk - 1284668.jpg|thumb|[[Westminster City Hall]], completed in 1965]]
Under local government reforms in 1889, the area fell within the newly created [[County of London]], and the local government of Westminster was further reformed in 1900, when the court of burgesses and the parish vestries were abolished and replaced by the [[Metropolitan Borough of Westminster]]. The borough was given [[City status in the United Kingdom|city status]] at the same time, allowing it to be known as the [[City of Westminster]] and its council as [[Westminster City Council]].

The [[City and Liberty of Westminster]] and the [[Metropolitan Borough of Westminster]] were very similar in extent, covering the parts of the wider modern [[City of Westminster]] south of the [[Oxford Street]], and its continuations Hyde Park Place. The exception is that part of [[Kensington Gardens]], south of that road, are part of [[Paddington]].

Westminster merged with St Marylebone and Paddington in 1965, but the combined area was allowed to keep the title [[City of Westminster]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/contents|title=Local Government Act 1963|publisher=Legislation.gov.uk|access-date=25 April 2020}}</ref>