Editing Shoreditch (section)

== Administration ==
[[File:Shoreditch Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg|thumb|right|A map showing the wards of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.]]
Shoreditch was an administrative unit with consistent boundaries from the [[Middle Ages]] until its merger into the [[London Borough of Hackney]] in 1965. Shoreditch was based for many centuries on the [[Ancient parish|Ancient Parish]] of [[Shoreditch (parish)|Shoreditch (St Leonard's)]], part of the county of [[Middlesex]].

Parishes in Middlesex were grouped into [[Hundred (county subdivision)|Hundreds]], with Shoreditch part of [[Ossulstone]] Hundred. Rapid Population growth around London saw the Hundred split into several 'Divisions' during the 1600s, with Shoreditch part of the [[Tower division|Tower Division (aka Tower Hamlets)]]. The Tower Division was noteworthy in that the men of the area owed military service to the [[Tower of London]] – and had done even before the creation of the Division<ref>The London Encyclopaedia, 4th Edition, 1983, Weinreb and Hibbert</ref> – an arrangement which continued until 1899.

The [[Ancient parish|Ancient Parishes]] provided a framework for both civil (administrative) and ecclesiastical (church) functions, but during the nineteenth century there was a divergence into distinct civil and ecclesiastical parish systems. In London the Ecclesiastical Parishes sub-divided to better serve the needs of a growing population, while the Civil Parishes continued to be based on the same Ancient Parish areas.
 
For civil purposes, the [[Metropolis Management Act 1855]] turned the parish area into a new ''Shoreditch District of the Metropolis'', with the same boundaries as the parish. The [[London Government Act 1899]] converted these areas into [[Metropolitan Borough]]s, again based on the same boundaries, sometimes with minor rationalisations. The Borough's areas of modern Shoreditch, [[Hoxton]] and [[Haggerston]] were administered from [[Shoreditch Town Hall]], which can still be seen on Old Street. It has been restored and is now run by the Shoreditch Town Hall Trust.

Holy Trinity, Shoreditch in the Old Nichol was for ecclesiastical purposes in Shoreditch from 1866 but was administratively part of [[Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green|Bethnal Green]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2008/4-july/news/uk/inside-the-skin-of-a-slum | title=Inside the skin of a slum }}</ref> 

In 1965, Shoreditch was merged with [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hackney]] and [[Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington|Stoke Newington]] to form the new [[London Borough of Hackney]].

===Governance===
Shoreditch is home to the [[Nat Wei, Baron Wei|Baron Wei of Shoreditch]], who lives in the area and sits as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[life peer]] and [[Lords Temporal]] as [[Members of the House of Lords|part]] of the [[House of Lords]].<ref>{{cite web|title=視頻：英國華裔男爵韋鳴恩專訪一|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/multimedia/2010/06/100616_vid_nat_wei_1.shtml|work=BBC 中文网|publisher=BBC|access-date=30 September 2011|author=BBC 中文网|author-link=BBC|date=17 June 2010|trans-title=Video: British Chinese baron Nat Wei Exclusive Interview 1}}</ref> He was [[Introduction (House of Lords)|introduced]] on 3 June 2010.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=59437 |date=3 June 2010 |page=10273 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/100603-0001.htm#10060340000777 |title=House of Lords debates (3 June 2010, 11:00&nbsp;am): Introduction: Lord Wei |publisher=Hansard : House of Lords : 3 June 2010 : Column 365 |access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref>

[[File:Official portrait of Meg Hillier crop 2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Official portrait of [[Meg Hillier]] ([[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]]) of [[Hackney South and Shoreditch]].]]
The Hackney borough part of Shoreditch is part of the [[Hackney South and Shoreditch]] constituency, represented in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] of the [[UK Parliament]] since 2005 by [[Meg Hillier]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and of the [[Co-operative Party]]

The eastern part of Shoreditch, in Tower Hamlets, lies within the constituency of [[Bethnal Green and Bow]], represented since 2010 by [[Rushanara Ali]] of the Labour Party.