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The County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with the City of London remaining an independent body. In 1965 Greater London was formed, taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county) together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of Kent and Surrey.



Greater London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together with the City of London.



Enfield once lay in Middlesex and is today one of the 19 boroughs making up Outer London. It lies on the northern edge of the capital.

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The borough once lay in Middlesex which once formed the kingdom the kingdom of the Middle Saxons, so named because their kingdom lay between those of the East Saxons (Essex) and the West Saxons (Wessex).



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The poet Cecil Day-Lewis (father of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis) died in Hadley Wood in 1972. He had been Poet Laureate since 1968 when he succeeded John Masefield who had died the year before. He was in turn succeeded by Sir John Betjeman. He is buried at Stinsford in Dorset.

Cecil Day-Lewis
 
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