
	The initial system was designed at a time when the official London boundary was restricted to the property rental London square mile of the small ancient City of London.

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The London postal district currently includes:

The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It property rental London replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area.

The Labour Party had controlled the LCC from 1934 and by the 1950s the Conservative Government considered that property rental London elections were becoming one-sided, since the London County Council (LCC) covered only the inner (generally Labour-voting) districts. The government sought to create a property rental London new body covering all of London.

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The area London covered ('the metropolis') consisted of parts of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex and Hertfordshire. In 1889 a County of London was property rental London created which was somewhat smaller than the postal district.

Around 40 of the sub-districts created in 1917 were outside its boundary with Leyton in Essex, Ealing in Middlesex, Totteridge in Hertfordshire and Wimbledon in Surrey served property rental London by the London postal area but outside the County of London.

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In 1965 the creation of Greater London caused London's boundary to expand to include these places for local government as well as property rental London postal purposes. However the new boundary went far beyond these postal districts.

Royal Mail were unable to follow this change and expand the postal district to match because of the prohibitive cost.[10] Places in London's outer boroughs such as Harrow, Enfield, Ilford, Romford, property rental London Bromley, Richmond and Croydon are therefore covered by parts of twelve adjoining postcode areas (EN, IG, RM, DA, BR, TN, CR, SM, KT, TW, HA and UB).

Royal Mail now has a policy of changing postcodes only if there is an operational advantage to them and has no plan to change the property rental London postcode system to match up with the Greater London boundaries. In 2003 the then Mayor of London expressed support for revision of postal addresses in Greater London.[11]