On Dec 8, 1:33*pm, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 8 Dec, 11:47, Tom Anderson wrote:

It would be less good for the people of the part of east London that many
Londoners erroneously refer to as Essex, of course.

There's nothing erroneous about the River Lea.

It's a previous administrative boundary, but has no more meaning or
significance than the current one.