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Old June 30th 06, 11:21 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?/British Standard BS7666.
On 30 Jun 2006 10:42:51 -0700, wrote:


Richard M Willis wrote:
"Adrian Auer-Hudson, MIMIS" wrote in message

Which County is BRISTOL in these days? And, is it EDINBURGH Midlothian
(the old county) or EDINBURGH Lothian (the new region)?What happened to
those exceptions like MILTON KEYNES?

Counties are a historical oddity. Just addressing an envelope to
..... Bristol BSx xxx is sufficient.

In fact, the conurbation of Bristol might spread across multiple
counties. I don't know.


Bristol was part in Gloucestershire and part in Somerset.

That applies to what is now Bristol but IIRC it was originally all on
the Gloucestershire side of the river, the south side (Bedminster and
Knowle ?) being part of the town/conurbation but not of the actual
city, being merely bits of Somerset.

This may
have been unique. It was certainly unusual. For a time it was in Avon.
Now Bristol seems to be a County.

It was previously (pre-*von) "City and County of" but IMU no local
authority devoid of subsidiary authorities is currently classified as
a "county" for local government purposes, although other bits of
officialdom or semi-officialdom might continue to do so.
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