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Martin Edwards[_2_]

On 31/08/2012 10:55, d wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:00:03 +0100
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 30/08/2012 14:25, d wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:14:06 +0100
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
d wrote:

Where I lived as a small child was well outside what people generally
recognised as London. It is now well inside what people generally
recognise as London. Even the county has been absorbed into London.

Probably the most accurate definition today would be any built up area
within the M25.

Cue howls of protest from the likes of Epsom and Watford...

Tough )

Apart from about 3 fields the built up part of watford is contiguous all the
way to central london.

B2003

Crap, there is farmland on both London Road and Oxhey Lane.

There's something called google maps - try using it. If you do you'll see
that as I said , aprt from a few fields watford is contiguous with central
london by way of south oxhey , hatch end and harrow.

B2003

The jurisdictional boundary is between South Oxhey and Hatch End.

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