In article ,
Martin Underwood writes
You'd think that it would make sense for the boundaries between one
"county" and another to be moved from time to time to take account of
any urban sprawl of a city on the boundary, so as always to avoid
splitting that city. The conurbation of Reading is split between
Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham, when it would be much better for
the boundary to be moved so it runs through sparsely-populated areas
between Reading and the surrounding villages. Likewise for London -
though where you (literally!) draw the line between London and its
surroundings is a more difficult one!

This happened in Reading about a century ago. The Berks/Oxon boundary
used to be the Thames, then Caversham - the Reading suburb north of the
Thames - was moved into Berks, and into Reading.
--
Thoss

thoss wrote:
:
This happened in Reading about a century ago. The Berks/Oxon boundary
used to be the Thames, then Caversham - the Reading suburb north of the
Thames - was moved into Berks, and into Reading.

We used to live in Appleton, Cheshire, in the early 70's. When the GPO
decided Warrington was to be our postal district, we rebelled and used
to put "Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire" on our letters, which the GPO
didn't like because Warrington was in Lancashire (north of the Mersey).
Letters often arrived with Cheshire scribbled out and Lancashire added.

The situation was finally resolved when the moved the whole of
Warrington into Cheshire in 1974 having invented Greater Manchester and
Merseyside.

(Actually, I think they moved the county boundaries, as it was easier
than moving the town :-)

On 13/11/05 21:13, "matt" wrote:

We used to live in Appleton, Cheshire, in the early 70's. When the GPO
decided Warrington was to be our postal district, we rebelled and used
to put "Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire" on our letters,

Why?

Stimpy wrote:

On 13/11/05 21:13, "matt" wrote:

We used to live in Appleton, Cheshire, in the early 70's. When the GPO
decided Warrington was to be our postal district, we rebelled and used
to put "Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire" on our letters,


Why?


'cos we didn't live in Lancashire, but if we didn't put Warrington on
our letters, they ended up in Oxford. Or possibly Wisconsin.

(oh all right then, it was just snobbery :-)