I think that every time I drive miles out into the Hertfordshire/Essex countryside past lovely villages to 'London' Stansted :hehe:
Face facts, everyone: it's Cambridge Airport.
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Yes, I've been told about Boxpark that there's quite good food and drink there. However, it is just hanging out the back of East Croydon Station, so you can go there, enjoy it and leave without actually going into Croydon proper. Tbh it's all academic to me, since I only ever go anywhere near Croydon to see my parents, who live about halfway between there and Bromley.
The funny thing is that I have two international airports that style themselves 'London' within half an hour drive of me (Luton and Stansted). I live about 15 miles north of the northernmost tip of Enfield and yet each involves me driving 20-odd miles even further away from London than I already am. :hehe:
As we are seeing, where London starts and ends depends on many things, some tangible and others not. The Roman City, The Medieval City, the Georgian, the Victorian, the Edwardian. Whether it is urban or rural. The political geography of the 32 boroughs, or the Post Office's definition, where for example the vast endless metro-land of the north-west is given a Harrow postcode to make it bloody clear it isn't London. Nor is Romford FFS.
And let's face it, if the post office should know where London is. They know where everywhere is.
For me, it's the North Circular. Not sure about Down There but I am working on it slowly. eg: The river marking the border between Tooting and the borough of Croydon is definitely the edge of London.
Yes. In fact I think it was you what told me. I suppose that would be quite convenient for the law courts (and doesn't involve taking one's life if one's hands and heading into central Croydon).
Come to think of it, I don't think I've been to central Croydon for the better part of 10 years.
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Pre-1965 it marked the border between London and Surrey.
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2...-graveney.html
Not on the Piccadilly Line, but on the London Loop. Had breakfast there near the canal.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/hay...on-to-uxbridge
Did meet your ladyfriend, btw. She sends her regards. :thumbup: