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Basil Jet[_3_] · January 12th 14, 12:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2014\01\12 13:25, wrote:

No they didn't. Their boundaries were as artificial as the present day ones.
They were based on the old vestries that had become irrelevant to modern
London by 1854. They have to be in a continuous urban area to a large extent
anyway. The County of London had been around for ten years before the
Metropolitan Boroughs were created in 1899. Obviously there are some strong
natural boundaries, especially the River Thames, but not many.

But they didn't use the natural boundaries that existed, otherwise
Ruislip and Northwood would have been placed in Harrow (which kept its
boundaries unchanged), and Rush Green placed in Havering.