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Old January 22nd 16, 04:32 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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aurora wrote:
[re local government arrangements in the London area]
So, England's historic core was being changed.


Arguably, England's historic core was Wessex and Mercia, not London.
England (as a single kingdom) was formed by the unification of the crowns
of Mercia and Wessex under Æthelstan and subsequent absorption of other
Anglo-Saxon territories...
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