West Ham Poor Law Union
West Ham Poor Law Union was a poor law union established on 31 May 1836. It initially covered the parishes of East Ham, Leyton, Little Ilford, Walthamstow, Wanstead, West Ham and Woodford, with the addition of Cann Hall from 1894 onwards. This meant that it straddled several other urban districts, county boroughs and municipal boroughs set up later in the 19th century and early in the 20th century - West Ham, East Ham, Wanstead, Woodford, Leyton and Walthamstow. It ran the West Ham Union Workhouse.
