London Banter - View Single Post - Zone 6 conquers ten further Southern stations

Colin Rosenstiel · November 13th 05, 05:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Peter Masson) wrote:

"TKD" wrote

Ken Livingstone has suggested aligning the London boundary to the
M25.

Initially Epsom, and several other peripheral districts, were
intended to be part of Greater London.

The parish of Knockholt was actually put into Greater London, but
protested so much that it escaped back into Kent. Knockholt staton is
however, not in Knockholt and (just) within Greater London, so within
Zone 6.

Two other parishes in that area were in a similar position to Knockholt,
included in Greater London but escaped by way of the Greater London,
Kent and Surrey Order in 1970. ISTR that one of the others was Hooley.

The main places proposed for inclusion in Greater London in the Herbert
report but not included in the London Government Act 1963 were Watford
and Epsom & Ewell.

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Colin Rosenstiel