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dg writes: Sort of yes, but technically no.
The 'Middlesex' and 'Surrey' equivalent boundaries are harder to define.
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Is the reason that what is now Newham was excluded from the County of London to do with West Ham and East Ham being county boroughs wanting to preserve their independence?
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Whether by accident or design, no part of Essex was taken over by the LCC in 1889, although Middlesex, Surrey and Kent all lost territory to the upstart.
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The idea that the Roding was the boundary between London and Essex (despite it never having been so administratively - other than a tiny bit near Chigwell) is something I've heard. Certainly there's a cultural divide of sorts, with Newham being firmly in the London camp, and east of there being 'Metropolitan Essex' that's a bit in both. The eastern edge of Greenwich borough is similar wrt 'Metropolitan Kent'.
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@Si The Roding is only part of the boundary between Newham and Barking & Dagenham and only a tiny bit with Redbridge. Following a 1990s modification, most of the eastern boundary is actually the North Circular - it could have been designed for the GLA internal debate - with only the southern part from Jenkins Lane down following the Roding.
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