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[email protected] · January 22nd 16, 03:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(aurora) wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:02:06 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2016\01\21 16:41, Recliner wrote:

The strange anomaly is Middlesex, which has been entirely absorbed into
Greater London,

Not quite... Potters Bar was handed over to Hertfordshire.

but whose name persists in postal addresses in some
boroughs, but not others.

There is also a Middlesex Football Association and presumably countless
other societies. There are also new Middlesex signs that have been put
up at the border within the last few years. Here's one..

a=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sV0OriaqNUk5d_6hdsCrtrQ!2e0?force= lite

It's also odd that places like Bromley still pretend to be in Kent,
though at least Kent still exists, unlike Middlesex.

Middlesex still exists, it just doesn't have a council. It existed for
hundreds of years before it had a council.

Middlesex exist in the countless property deeds and legal documents
wherein it is referenced.

Mainly historic only these days since registration of title at the Land
Registry.

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Colin Rosenstiel