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Obvious possible future series of posts...a walk round the boundary of inner London?

dg writes: 60 miles approx, so maybe not.
An inner London address with a Dartford post code. Wonderful. DG's quirkiest discovery so far this year.
I spent a year living at 142 Shirland Road, had no idea how close to Outer London we were!

Great to see an update on how the local area has changed, looks like a shift upmarket with 144 now a trendy bakery.
This unequivocally is a classic DG post!
Wow
Brilliant post. Also, never realised that London had heathland like that.
Brilliant post, a classic - but how can you be so heartless as to tease us with "a historic feature long since demolished" and not tell us what it was, and all about it?

Will this be a future post?
To follow up my own comment, a bit of digging reveals the original boundaries on the 6-inch OS sheet Middlesex XVI Surveyed: 1866 Published: 1874 - it followed a hedge (the boundary on the map has the annotation 4ft R.H. which indicates 4ft from the Rootline of the Hedge. What puzzles me is that the boundaries were moved tot the mid-line of the roads when they were build, apart from this little kink.

dg writes: Map. Better map.
And post updated, thanks.

An inner London address with a Dartford post code. Wonderful. DG's quirkiest discovery so far this year.

I don’t think there are any Greenwich borough addresses that have a DA7 postcode, but Woodlands Farm and the garden centre at the bottom of Shooters Hill are both DA16 (Welling), a small clump of streets and a grim looking pub in Sidcup DA15 come under Greenwich, and a couple of streets in Chislehurst BR7 get their council tax bills from Woolwich Town Hall.

A little further along, Lewisham borough includes Downham (BR1) and Beckenham Place Park (BR3).

A few years back, some Bexley residents with SE2 postcodes campaigned to be switched to DA7, a stunt they might be less likely to pull once Crossrail finally opens.

DG, you’ve already done Sewardstone, haven’t you?
Oddly enough the new IKEA made me think of ILEA for the first time in 30 years, so this is all highly apposite.
Very peculiar!
Makes me wonder if the proposed constituency boundary changes will eventually result in borough boundary changes too? My local constituency could well suddenly find itself partly in a neighbouring borough!
I looked up Turpins Cave, on your map of Bostall Heath, hoping for something exotic. Rather disappointed to find that it's just the result of old chalk diggings and the local council has blocked the entrance off anyway.
"proposed constituency boundary changes will eventually result in borough boundary changes too?"
Unlikely - I live in a parliamentary constituency which has straddled a borough boundary since 1997, and no-one has tried to move that boundary yet. It does mean that the MP has to work with two local councils though. Not far away is a constituency which covers one entire borough and parts of two others.
Having discover you through a link on www.railforums.co.uk I am having lots of fun reading old and new posts and today went to the the Whitechapel gallery despite TfL trying to confuse me with sections of lines being closed.

One thing Sir
Have you considered using what3words to pinpoint some of the places you visit on your jaunts? It is both a phone app and a computer thingy.

dg writes: See 3.15pm here. And no :)
May I be the 94th person to point out that a clam is not a crustacean?

Keep up the good work.










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