Nick wrote:
"Epetruk" wrote in message
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Nick wrote:

London heritage??? We have been part of Kent for generations, and
only sucked into the Greater London experiment so the Tories could
take control of London government (well, mostly). I am sure the
overwhelming majority of residents in Bexley describe, and want to
describe themselves as living in Kent (me included). Maybe those of
us in metropolitan Kent will one day escape from the clutches of
central London and determine our own affairs without inteference.

I loathe Bexley being described as "south London", it really is NOT.
We are part of the Greater London administrative area, that's all,
for all other purposes we are people of Kent. I know "Londoners"
find this hard to believe, but many of us don't wanty to be part of
your high-density overpopulated sprawling urban gloom.

So... which is more reliable in determining where a place is located
- a postcode county system which isn't even required to be used by
the Royal Mail, or the county that administers the borough?

I mean, nobody seriously argues that Bordeaux is in the UK.

Postal counties are pretty well established, based largely on
administrative counties of some decades past. People, not
surprisingly, quote where they live as where they are addressed,
hence people in Bexley say they live in Kent as that's what they
usually quote as their address.

But I've already stated that they aren't even used today by the institution
that introduced them.

And why use postal counties in particular, which after all only reflect the
divisions of England at a particular point in the past? Why not go further
back - or further forward?

Anyway, if I lived in Bexley, I would still get a good night's sleep if my
address was referred to as 'Bexley, London' as long as my letters still got
to my address and people were able to find my address.

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