London Banter - View Single Post - Which UK railway station names do you feel are anomalous?

[email protected] · January 12th 14, 05:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Peter Masson) wrote:

"Aurora" wrote

However, the real issue here is that Westminster was thrust upon the
inhabitants of the neighboring boroughs. Had there been a ballot
option, offering the choice, there would be no problem here. The
residents would have decided to maintain their old local borough, or
join the nearby City. As it is we will never know.

The decision to reorganise London local government was taken at
national level, and it was true that there were no ballots as to
which new London Borough the old Metropolitan Boroughs would go into.
Keeping the old boroughs was not an option - they were too small, but
local opinion was taken into account. The original proposal was for
Chislehurst & Sidcup UD to go into Bexley Borough - sensible for
Sidcup, but unwelcome in Chislehurst, and after pressure it was
agreed to split the UD along the A20 - Chislehurst going into Bromley
Borough.

Orpington UD also went into Bromley Borough. Knockholt didn't like
this - it wanted to stay in Kent, and following pressure, Knockkholt
got out of Greater London and Bromley Borough, and went into
Sevenoaks District in Kent in 1974 - and got its parish council back,
which it lost when Orpington became an Urban District.

Knockholt was accompanied out of Greater London by a couple of other small
places, Farleigh and Hooley which went back into Surrey as a result of the
same Greater London, Kent and Surrey Order made in 1969. NALOPKT

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Colin Rosenstiel