On 12/01/2014 00:22, Aurora wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:09:03 -0000, "NY" wrote:

"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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On 11/01/2014 22:16, Robert wrote:
Heathrow wasn't in London when first built! My father worked there in the
early 50s and we lived in Bedfont. Going to London was a major expedition
involving buses to either Feltham or Hounslow West stations and then the
train.

Where was the boundary between London and other places defined to be in
those days? Was it a 1974 change when the county of Greater London was
created? When the neighbouring counties had boundaries that met close to
central London, where was the boundary of "London" deemed to be, and did it
gradually change as greenfield sites got filled in?

Greater London was formed in 1965. Prior to that there was, the
almost sane, smaller, London County Council. Prior to 1889 Middlesex
was the county at the heart of England, although only its South
Eastern part was urbanized. IIRC until 1889 the City of London was
outwith any County.


The City has been an autonomous county since the 12th Century.


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