On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Recliner wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in message


To an extent, Middlesex exists as a place in the sense that people
think it exists - in that sense it's much like any other place name.
There's all those many things named after Middlesex of course - there's
Middlesex County Cricket Club for example, and there's also North
Middlesex and West Middlesex hospitals (and there was (Central)
Middlesex Hospital, now merged with UCH). Middlesex also continued to
exist as a postal county up until the Royal Mail abandoned the notion
of postal counties, so properly addressed letters included Middlesex on
the last line (this issue is somewhat complicated as a good chunk of
metropolitan Middlesex was already in the London postal district).

I'm still forced to use Middlesex as part of my address by Web forms
that have a mandatory 'County' field.

I usually put 'Londonshire'. Stands to reason.

tom

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