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Jeremy Double · January 23rd 16, 02:08 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

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(Jeremy Double) wrote:

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...

You seem to be forgetting that England was pretty much united under Roman
occupation with London as a major city. The Anglo-Saxons were a bunch of
johnny-come-latelys.

But it was not England in Roman times, it was Britain (Britannia), and it
wasn't a kingdom, it was a Roman province. The word "English" derives from
the Angles of the Anglo-Saxons. The kingdom of England only originated
with the merger of the crowns of Wessex and Mercia.
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Jeremy Double