On Jun 2, 10:39*pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" T.C.Roll-
wrote:
e27002 wrote:
Last I knew the postal address
Chessington, Surrey is/was actually in London.

You can put "Chessington", "Chessington, Surrey", "Chessington, London",
"Chessington, Greater London", "Chessington, Occupied Surrey", "Chessington,
Neverneverland" or "Chessington, [Whatever]" on a postal address. Royal Mail
no longer require counties to be included - they gave up in 1996 around the
time of technological advancements and yet another round of local government
reorganisation changing county boundaries.

Understood. And it was a good thing. AFIK, the UK was the only
entity still utilizing counties in mailing addresses. However, until
1996 the mailing address was CHESSINGTON, Surrey. And, many residents
think of themselves as part of Surrey. None-the-less, they pay
Council Tax to the GLA.

This would be well and good if they had voted to become Londoners.
They never did. In 1974 they simply woke up within the GLC.

Southwark, Putney, Wimbledon, et al, suffered the same fate in 1889.

No liberals screaming for democracy on this one!