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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 15:25:37 GMT
The present boundary of the City of London includes some of the mediaeval suburbs. The map below shows the boundary in 1870, which differs from that today only in detail. The pink zone represents the mediaeval walled area, less the Tower of London and its liberties. The mediaeval wall departed from its Roman predecessor only where it incorporated the Blackfriars precinct in the west. In the east, the Tower complex swallowed areas both inside and outside the old wall. To the south, the riverside has been reclaimed to a considerable distance since Roman times.  A shame the small size of the lettering makes that map almost unreadable. Some of those tiny "parishes" must have close to zero (if not actually nil) resident voters today? That's also true of some of the electoral wards, which are somewhat larger! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 21:57:19 GMT
The present boundary of the City of London includes some of the mediaeval suburbs. The map below shows the boundary in 1870, which differs from that today only in detail. The pink zone represents the mediaeval walled area, less the Tower of London and its liberties. The mediaeval wall departed from its Roman predecessor only where it incorporated the Blackfriars precinct in the west. In the east, the Tower complex swallowed areas both inside and outside the old wall. To the south, the riverside has been reclaimed to a considerable distance since Roman times. A shame the small size of the lettering makes that map almost unreadable. Some of those tiny "parishes" must have close to zero (if not actually nil) resident voters today? The city is actually an unparished area. All those you see in the map were combined into a single civil parish in 1907. That remaining parish was abolished in 1965.
www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10230743
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 11, 2017 22:03:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 22:09:47 GMT
True, although strictly speaking they aren't parishes. Parishes were not (as you will know) until relatively recently allowed in the Greater London Area. There is now a civil parish and council for the Queens Park area of Westminster LBC, created in 2014. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 11, 2017 22:12:47 GMT
The Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation of Buildings) Regulations 1951 This responsibility must weigh heavily upon them... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 22:13:02 GMT
I have to say I am more in favour of retaining the City's traditional boundaries than I am of its institutions...
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Post by john07 on Apr 12, 2017 9:17:41 GMT
The Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation of Buildings) Regulations 1951 This responsibility must weigh heavily upon them... Trump sent missiles at Syria for doing that! |
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