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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.
Newham once lay in Essex and is today one of the 13
boroughs making up Inner London. Its eastern border is marked by the
River Roding/Barking Creek (and the London borough of Barking and
Dagenham), in the west the River Lea (and the London borough of Tower
Hamlets) and in the south lies on the River Thames.
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Anglo-Saxon Kings
Danish Kings |
Part
of the borough (East and West Ham) once lay in Essex which once formed
the kingdom of the East Saxons,
later becoming part of the kingdom of Wessex.
The East Saxon kingdom reached from the river Thames in the south
(on the other side of which lay the kingdom of Kent) to the river
Stour in the north (which separated the kingdom from that of the East
Angles).
Another part of the borough (North Woolwich) 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).
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Inventors and Scientists |
| The
surgeon Joseph Lister was born at Upton
House (then in Essex) in 1827. He revolutionised modern surgical methods
in 1867 by introducing the system of using antiseptic during operations.
By disinfecting the operating instruments the chance of infection
was much reduced and this development enabled surgeons to perform
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| Writers and Poets |
The
Victorian poet and priest Gerard
Manley Hopkins, was born in 1844 in Stratford (then in
Essex).
Gerard
Manley Hopkins What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Inversnaid (1881)
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Ham: British History Online |
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Ham: British History Online |
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