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[email protected] · July 21st 09, 07:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(David Hansen) wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:07:14 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be MIG
wrote this:-

You get arguments like "Altrincham is administratively in Greater
Manchester, but it's geographically in Cheshire". Bizarre. What do
they think "Cheshire" is beyond an administrative or government
concept?

I suspect it has something to do with the length of time the
administrative concept of counties has existed. Not only that, until
relatively recently the administrative concepts did not change
boundaries too often.

Counties had no clear boundaries in the modern sense before County
Councils were created in 1889.

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Colin Rosenstiel