Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

Wikipedia editors once got in a mess trying to say
where Euston is - "Camden" may be the borough name but everyone
thinks of Camden Town, "St Pancras" is an old village name that
everyone now uses for just the railway station, "Bloomsbury" clearly
stops at the other side of the road and "Euston" is what a lot of
people call the area but not much use here given what they've taken
the name from!

Isn't it in Somers Town?

I noticed recently that before the 1960s, Hampstead Garden Suburb was half
in the Middlesex borough of Finchley and half in the Middlesex borough of
Hendon. None of it was in the London borough of Hampstead, in fact it almost
seemed to end at the Hampstead border.

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 02:15:37 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

Wikipedia editors once got in a mess trying to say
where Euston is - "Camden" may be the borough name but everyone
thinks of Camden Town, "St Pancras" is an old village name

It isn't, it's the parish name. A parish might have more than one
village, with the Wikipaedia entry using the words:-

"St Pancras was originally a medieval parish which ran from close to
what is now Oxford Street north as far as Highgate, and from what is
now Regent's Park in the west to the road now known as York Way in the
east, boundaries which take in much of the current London Borough of
Camden, ..."
which would have encompassed a number of habitations.

Older maps are often a good guide to original placenames but in this
case something preceding the Ordnance Survey will be needed, possibly
a copy of "Middlesex" the official county history published in several
editions by the MCC ?
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