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04:01:49 on Wed, 30 Dec 2009, John B remarked:
You reckon there are Sussex folk in Tunbridge Wells who're still
disgruntled about being forcibly assimilated into Kent? People in
Oxford who insist they're native Berkshire-ites? Isle of Wight natives
who insist they live in Hampshire...?

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find there were people who regard
themselves as living in Oxfordshire, despite being on the northern edge
of Reading and having been assimilated into administrative Berkshire
(and now unitary Reading).
--
Roland Perry