Welcome to the CITY OF LONDON is geographically in Middlesex but completely autonomous.

This great city is literally a law unto itself and is surrounded to the north, east and west by the County of Middlesex - the two have been inseparable for over 1000 years. The River Thames covers the City's southern flank.

To be a true Londoner you must be born within the City of London's square mile. But to be a Londoner doesn't make you a Cockney, which is something completely different, for that you must be born within the sound of Bow Bells rung in Tower Hamlets, Middlesex!

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Other links that will be of use to you:

Middlesex History Wikipedia
Middlesex - British History Online
GENUKI - Genealogy - Middlesex
Russell Grant’s The United Kingdom through the Ages – Middlesex
The Historic Counties Trust
The Association of British Counties
Rupert Barnes’s Guide to the Counties