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Which is a pain in the bum because one person's idea of where Hackney is is different to another's. If the borough was called something different it would remove a lot of confusion.
Although given you get people that can't tell the difference between Finchley Road and Finchley there is probably no hope.
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Which is a pain in the bum because one person's idea of where Hackney is is different to another's. If the borough was called something different it would remove a lot of confusion.
I and a couple of campaigning friends have long had a lot of fun with insisting on hyper-localism instead--my breakaway borough of Clapton actually has a larger area than the part of the former parish of St John-at-Hackney that was known as Hackney.
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Although given you get people that can't tell the difference between Finchley Road and Finchley there is probably no hope.
Good grief, really? The human race is doomed. Finchley Road is NW3/6, Finchley is NW11.
Oliver Schick
Brommers
Yes, obviously the creation of the London Boroughs in 1965 (as part of the creation of the GLC) amalgamated several former London Metropolitan Boroughs into one (e.g., Hackney was put together from Shoreditch, Hackney, and Stoke Newington), and a lot of people still haven't got over that--rightly in the case of place names, because Chiswick really is not Ealing, despite being partly in the borough of that name and partly in Hounslow (but correct me if I've got my boundaries wrong).