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London | Lewisham

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.

Lewisham once lay in Kent and Surrey is today one of the 19 boroughs making up Outer London. Its northern border lies on the River Thames on the opposite bank lies the London borough of Tower Hamlets. The London boroughs of Southwark lie to its west, Greenwich to its east and Bromley to its south.

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The borough once lay in Kent which was an independent kingdom, but was later to become part of Wessex. The kingdom of Kent reached north to the river Thames, across which lay the kingdom of the East Saxons (Essex) and south and west to the kingdom of the South Saxons (Sussex).