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London

What do you want to know about London. Known as "the smoke". All the tourists go to London. How many people work there? About half.

Most commute in from the suburbs. The houses are steadily expanding out to the M25 motorway which surrounds the city. So for this map, "London" includes most of Surrey, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, and Essex.

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Surrey

This is Surrey. Countryside at last. Full of commuters to London, but with lovely scenery. Bletchingley is shown as this was my most recent home. Almost hidden under the roundabout dots on the borders of Sussex is the aeroplane graphic of Gatwick Airport. What else to say?

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Sussex

Goring is just to the left of Worthing. Brighton is not labeled but is the dot to the right of Worthing. All this is actually West Sussex with the County Town at Chichester.

Hastings, where there was some fighting in 1066, is in East Sussex, with the County Town at Lewes. Here are the high cliffs of the Seven Sisters, the start of the South Downs Way at Eastbourne, the flat, open promontory of Dungeness.

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English Channel

All that separates us from France is about 22 miles of water. Narrowest bit is at Dover where the Channel Tunnel runs. Nearest to Goring is Dieppe, 75 miles across the water. At Newhaven, near Brighton, they have ferries at the bottom of the garden, and the journey takes two hours on the Skimmer.

The water is cold and often rough. No I do not swim every morning before breakfast.

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Kent

The garden of England, where the apples grow, and the finest hops in the world for making beer.

Rapidly becoming an industrial corridor with traffic by road and rail from Dover to the M25 and London.

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River Thames

From the headwaters way above Oxford, through the centre of London and on to the North Sea.

London used to be one of the greatest ports in the world with large ships sailing right up to the Tower of London. But the shipping world is all containers and Ro-Ro. So Dover and Felixstowe are the busy ports.

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Essex

Home of the Essex Man, and of course the Essex Girl. Its all North of the Thames across the Betty Bridge at Dartford, so regard them all as foreigners.

Here be dragons.

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Sussex

South East England

Street Plan

Goring Parish Boundaries

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