Editing Holborn (section)

===Response to urbanisation===
The St George the Martyr Queen Square area became a separate parish, for both civil and ecclesiastical matters, in 1723; but for civil matters was reunited with the part of St Andrew outside the city (''Above the Bars'') of London in 1767, to form [[St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr]].

The [[Holborn District (Metropolis)|Holborn District]] was created in 1855, consisting of the civil parishes and extra-parochial places of Holborn outside the city; St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr, [[Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place]], as well as two tiny units that were added from the [[Finsbury division|Finsbury Division]]: [[Glasshouse Yard]] and [[St Sepulchre (parish)|St Sepulchre, Middlesex]].
[[File:St Giles & Holborn Civil Parish Map 1870.png|thumb|The Holborn District (in green, but excluding St Sepulchre Middlesex and Glasshouse Yard which had been attached to it) merged with the combined parishes of St Giles and Bloomsbury (in red), in 1900, to form the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.]]
[[File:Holborn Met. B Ward Map 1952.svg|thumb|left|The parts of Holborn outside the City formed the eastern part of the [[Metropolitan Borough of Holborn]]. The former combined parish of [[Bloomsbury]] and [[St Giles, London|St Giles]] (including most of the Lincoln's Inn Ward).]]
The [[Metropolitan Borough of Holborn]] was created in 1900, consisting of the former area of the Holborn District and the [[St Giles District (Metropolis)|St Giles District]], but the small units previously part of the [[Finsbury division|Finsbury Division]] were instead included in the [[Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury]]. The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was abolished in 1965 and its area now forms part of the [[London Borough of Camden]].