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Middlesex as an administrative county before the creation of Greater London.
Middlesex is an area in England, mostly covered by Greater London. It is one of the 39 historical counties of England. It includes the City of London, which was self-governing from the thirteenth century. Middlesex no longer exists in any legal or practical sense, but is still used as an area name.
The name means the territory of the middle Saxons and its first recorded use was in A.D 704 as Middleseaxan.
Middlesex was recorded in the Domesday Book as being divided into the six hundreds of Edmonton , Elthorne , Gore , Hounslow (later Isleworth ), Ossulstone and Spelthorne.
London's northwestern suburbs steadily covered large parts of Middlesex, especially following the coming of the railways. In 1888 much of the area became part of the County of London - the present-day boroughs of Camden, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, IslingtonIslington is a borough of London to the north of the City of London, west of Hackney, east of Camden, and south of Haringey. Population 179,000 ( 1998), ethnic minority population about 20%. It was formed in 1964 through amalgamation of the Metropolitan B, Tower HamletsThe London Borough of Tower Hamlets is the London borough to the east of the City of London, north of the River Thames. It includes the classic East End. The area has been known as the Tower Hamlets for centuries, originally literally referring to the sma and WestminsterThe City of Westminster is a London borough and a city in its own right, situated to the west of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It was extended in 1965 to include the former Metropolitan Boroughs of St. Marylebone and Paddington in the were removed.
During the next few decades the county became almost entirely urbanised by suburbs of London. Towards the end of the period, many of the boroughs in the area were demanding independence from Middlesex County Council as county boroughCounty borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. History When the first county councils were created, it was decided that to let them have authority over the large tows, which if granted would have left Middlesex County Council controlling an area with three distinct and unconnected fragments - in the west, the south-east and the north of the county.
Instead, in 19651965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). Events January-February January 4 United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his " Great Society" during his State of the Union address. January 14 Prime Ministers of N, nearly all the remainder of Middlesex was subsumed by the new Greater London except the Potters Bar district; which was ceded to Hertfordshire, and the district of Spelthorne, which were ceded to Surrey. The greater part went to form the new London boroughs of Barnet (part only), Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, and Hounslow.
In 1995 the village of Poyle was transferred from Spelthorne in Surrey to the Berkshire borough of Slough.
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