Friday, June 13, 2008
The birth of Greater London (1st April 1965)
Metropolitan borough names that vanished overnight: Battersea, Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Camberwell, Deptford, Finsbury, Hampstead, Holborn, Paddington, Poplar, St Marylebone, St Pancras, Shoreditch, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Woolwich.
The new map of London: (very approximately)
» The City of London [purple]
» The County of London (pre-1965) [orange]
» Middlesex [green]
» A bit of Essex [green]
» A bit of Kent [green]
» A bit of Surrey [green]
» A tiny bit of Herts [in Barnet, not shown]
(yes, it's very approximate)
(a better map here)
Ten councils that narrowly missed out on becoming part of London: Banstead, Caterham and Warlingham, Epsom and Ewell, Esher, Walton and Weybridge (Surrey); Chigwell (Essex); Cheshunt (Herts); Potters Bar, Staines, Sunbury (Middlesex).
Nine new boroughs that were nearly called something else: Barnet ("Northgate", or "Northern Heights"), Brent ("Willesden and Wembley"), Enfield ("Enfield Chase", or "Edmonton Hundred"), Greenwich ("The Royal Borough of Charlton"), Hammersmith and Fulham ("Olympia", or "Riverside"), Hillingdon ("Uxbridge"), Islington ("New River"), Lewisham ("Ravensbourne"), Richmond ("Twickenham").
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