How would you define London?

[Herd]

London for me is clear their are boroughs that are in the greater london area but are NOT in London .

For example East London E18 is the last one and thats South Woodford ,as it becomes Woodford it is Essex but the Borough of Redbridge covers both of them !
Chingford is E4 and along with E17,E11,E10 Make Up Waltham Forest which is entirely in London !



South of the River may be classed as London but it isn't and I want tighter border controls Now .
West London gets more Irrelevant the further out you go out .
The Borough of Newham doesn't have a twin town but has a murder pact with Mogadishu .
Bromley is full of Pikeys and rich Tories

Number 54 Drayton Park N5 IS the epicenter of the Universe N5 and is the spot where my people will beam me back up to Zog after Christmas when the world ends .

[SWLGooner]

If you ain't from South of the river you're a *word censored*! End of ;)

Tony Saunders, does Enfield really feel like London? Not to me.

[g88ner]

full of foreigners

Says the Englishman who lives in Wales...

[Chips and Chocolate]

.Bromley is full of Pikeys and rich Tories

Oi I've lived in Bromley (you've got a point though )

[digger]

Check out the map of the boroughs



Really you can only go round the circle of

Hammersmith and Fulham
Kensington and Chelsea
Westminster
Camden
Islington
Hackney
Tower Hamlets
City
Southwark
Lambeth
Wandsworth

The rest is too far out, it's all suburbs.

I'm Barnet, with a compass point postcode of NW4.

It ain't London. Well not the London I would show to anyone who wanted to know what the City looked like.

I'd agree with that. Anything else is "greater London".

Although people seem to forget that Westminster is actually a seperate City, so you could say "London" is only City, Tower Hamlets, Islington, Camden, Southwark, Hackney.....

[brazilianGOONER]

i'm very interested in seeing the replies to this, as after a whole week in london i still don't understand quite well those concepts... county, borrow, city, town, fucks sake you englishmen like to overcomplicate things

OK... example.

Google maps says here is an example you may understand.

County : Rio Grande do Sul
Borough : Petropolis/Rio Branco/Bela Vista etc.
City : Porto Alegre

A town would be somewhere like Canoas.

cheers mate, makes sense i think boroughs in london do have some sort of its own administration, right? the boroughs we have here basically exist to facilitate the division of different areas inside a big city, but there isn't such a thing as the government of a borough - it's all centered in the city hall, boroughs are just, say, 'virtual'.

btw, was it luck that you managed to mention exactly the borough i live in and the two closest to it?

[arseofacrow]

If you ain't from South of the river you're a c**t! End of

Tony Saunders, does Enfield really feel like London? Not to me.

[Boomer]

Check out the map of the boroughs



Really you can only go round the circle of

Hammersmith and Fulham
Kensington and Chelsea
Westminster
Camden
Islington
Hackney
Tower Hamlets
City
Southwark
Lambeth
Wandsworth

The rest is too far out, it's all suburbs.

I'm Barnet, with a compass point postcode of NW4.

It ain't London. Well not the London I would show to anyone who wanted to know what the City looked like.

I do think Wandsworth should be split. It's a bit to...erm....err Suburban for me.
Maybe we should start a group!

[Boomer]

London for me is clear their are boroughs that are in the greater london area but are NOT in London .

For example East London E18 is the last one and thats South Woodford ,as it becomes Woodford it is Essex but the Borough of Redbridge covers both of them !
Chingford is E4 and along with E17,E11,E10 Make Up Waltham Forest which is entirely in London !



South of the River may be classed as London but it isn't and I want tighter border controls Now .
West London gets more Irrelevant the further out you go out .
The Borough of Newham doesn't have a twin town but has a murder pact with Mogadishu .
Bromley is full of Pikeys and rich Tories

Number 54 Drayton Park N5 IS the epicenter of the Universe N5 and is the spot where my people will beam me back up to Zog after Christmas when the world ends .

Good but N1 is the centre of London and where's it's all at!

[Percy Dalton]

My god, Boomer has lowered himself to the basement?

[Boomer]

My god, Boomer has lowered himself to the basement?

I've always checked out the basement from time to time.

Have to say that the clique seem to have mirgrated and post more here then they do upstairs now a days.
That it is of course if there was a clique...becuase there isn't one, right!?

[T.S]

If you ain't from South of the river you're a c**t! End of

Tony Saunders, does Enfield really feel like London? Not to me.

Never said it does or doesn't. You just asked how London is to be defined, and by definition, Enfield is in London. There's more to London than Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

[QuartzGooner]

I feel that London is anywhere within a London Borough.

Just because something is in the suburbs does not mean that it is outside of London, because you have the centre, inner suburbs and outer suburbs all making up the city.

I would say that the boundary of the centre is roughly equivalent to Zone 2 of the Underground, the boundary to the inner suburbs is roughly equivalent to the North/South Circular roads, and the boundary to London is the outer border of the London Boroughs.

The postcodes are irrelevant, they are just for use by the post office and teenage gangs.

As for the counties, London overlaps them, and has done for over 100 years.

Is Tottenham in London?
Yes, and it is also in the historic county of Middlesex, which these days is merely a postal address and a Russell Grant publicity angle.
The historic county of Middlesex encompassed Islington too, making us every bit as much a Middlesex club as Spurs, should someone wish to label us as such.



As for the London Underground, obviously it extends far beyond the London boundaries into the home counties.

As for Watford....not London.
Go out there on a weekend and it is a different vibe to London, more like a Northern town.

But places like Ealing, Queensbury, Burnt Oak, Southgate...all in the outer suburbs, but very much London.

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

confusing

[OneBardGooner]

Was having this conversation with a mate today.

How would you define London ?

Expensive and very very smelly - a bit like a dublin whoooore