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Middlesex

NameMiddlesex
Native NameWestsachsen
HQsee text
GovernmentMiddlesex County Council (1889 � 1965)
OriginMiddle Saxons
StatusCeremonial county (until 1965)
Administrative county (1889 � 1965)
StartIn antiquity
CodeMDX
CodeNameChapman code
Replace1889: part to County of London
1965: Greater London and
parts to Surrey and Hertfordshire
DivisionsHundreds (ancient)
Arms
Banner of arms of Middlesex County Council
PopulationFirst818,129
PopulationFirstYear1801
AreaFirst181320 acre (733.8 km2)
AreaFirstYear1801/1881
DensityFirst4.5/acre
DensityFirstYear1801
PopulationSecond2,920,485
PopulationSecondYear1881
DensitySecond16.1/acre
DensitySecondYear1881
PopulationThird1,126,465
PopulationThirdYear1911
AreaThird148701 acre (601.8 km2)
AreaThirdYear1911
DensityThird7.6/acre
DensityThirdYear1911
PopulationLast2,234,543
PopulationLastYear1961
AreaLast148691 acre (601.7 km2)
AreaLastYear1961
DensityLast15/acre
DensityLastYear1961

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Middlesex (c-eniconˈmɪdəlsɛks) is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contains the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time. The county was significantly affected by the expansion of the metropolitan area of London in both the 18th and 19th centuries, such that from 1855 the south-east was administered as part of the metropolis. When county councils were initially introduced in England in 1889 about 20% of the area of Middlesex, along with a third of its population, was transferred to the County of London, and the remainder formed a smaller county, in the north-west, under the control of Middlesex County Council.

In the interwar years urban London had further expanded, with increasing suburbanisation, improvement and expansion of public transport, and the setting up of new industries outside the inner London area. After the Second World War, the population of the County of London and inner Middlesex was in steady decline, with new population growth only experienced in the outer suburbs. After a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, almost all of the original area was incorporated into an enlarged Greater London in 1965, with small parts transferred to neighbouring Hertfordshire and Surrey. Despite the disappearance of the county council, Middlesex is still used as an area name and was retained as a postal county; which is now an optional component of postal addresses.


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