"Robin May" wrote in message
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"Jonn Elledge" wrote the following in:


I don't think the situation is clear cut enough to call Bexley
either Kent or London, because it's a part of Kent that's now in
London. Or a part of London that's in Kent, depending on which way
you look at it. Same goes for Croydon and Surrey, Romford and
Essex, Harrow and Middlesex etc.

I don't think there's anyone in Romford who would really consider it a
part of London, it's much more a part of Essex than anything else
(although I don't know about how it works administratively).

Romford's in the London Borough of Havering and the GLA. I grew up there and
thought of it as both outer London and Essex; a lot of people I knew in the
area agreed.


While this subject is being discussed, is Newham and in particular the
Plaistow, West Ham and Canning Town area a "proper" part of London?

I know a lot of people who'd call that the East end. People from Mile End
and Stepney may say otherwise.

Jonn