Editing London Borough of Brent (section)

===Administrative history===
[[File:Historical Brent Map.jpg|thumb|left|The Brent area in the [[Ordnance Survey]]'s First Series of maps (1805{{ndash}}1869)]]
The London Borough of Brent was created in 1965 under the [[London Government Act 1963]], covering the combined area of the former [[Municipal Borough of Wembley]] and the [[Municipal Borough of Willesden]]. The area was transferred from [[Middlesex]] to Greater London to become one of the 32 London Boroughs.<ref>{{cite book | first=Frederic |last=Youngs | title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England | volume=I: Southern England | year=1979 | publisher=[[Royal Historical Society]] | location=London | isbn=0-901050-67-9}}</ref>

The borough of Willesden had evolved from a [[Local board of health#Local Government Act 1858|local government district]] created in 1874 for the parish of Willesden.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 4) Act 1874 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/37-38/152/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref> Such districts were reconstituted as [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban district]]s under the [[Local Government Act 1894]].<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1894|year=1894|chapter=73|access-date=12 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Middlesex |date=1914 |page=467 |url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/63775/rec/4 |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref>

To coincide with the 1894 Act coming into force, an urban district called Wembley was created, covering the two parishes of [[Kingsbury, London|Kingsbury]] and Wembley, the latter being created at the same time from areas formerly in the [[ancient parish]] of [[Harrow on the Hill]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Local Government Board |date=1895 |page=269 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFIwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA269 |access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Middlesex |date=1914 |page=458 |url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/63766/rec/4 |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref> Kingsbury seceded from the Wembley Urban District in 1900 to become its own urban district, but was reunited with the Wembley Urban District in 1934.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kingsbury Urban District |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10108068 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref> Willesden was incorporated to become a [[municipal borough]] in 1933,<ref>{{cite web |title=Willesden Urban District / Municipal Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10213344 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref> as was Wembley in 1937.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wembley Urban District / Municipal Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10153050 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref>

The modern borough takes its name from the [[River Brent]] which runs through the borough and separated the former boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.<ref>King, Rosamund & Barres-Baker, Malcolm - ''Britain in Old Photographs: The London Borough of Brent'' (Stroud, The History Press, 2011) p.4 {{ISBN|0-75245-827-2}}</ref>