Which county is middlesex in?

Answer 1

Middlesex IS a county for many purposes (sports teams etc) but Middlesex County Council (only created in 1889 though there was a Middlesex county area since the 6th Century) was abolished in 1965 with the creation of the Greater London Council (later abolished by Mrs Thatcher),

Most sports have an inter-county level competition, especially for young people and if you live in west or north London the team you play for is Middlesex, The most famous Middlesex sports team is surely Middlesex County Cricket Club, based at Lords in St Johns Wood, NW8, where the second Test is traditionally played.

The annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, rowed on the Thames, involves a toss for which eight has use of the Surrey shore and which the Middlesex shore. Also well known is Middlesex University, So it may have been adminstratively abolished but it ain't dead yet!

In the chess world (I used to be a Middlesex County Chess captain) the following 16 London boroughs (all north of the river) are regarded as making up Middlesex and if you live, work, study or were born in any of them, you are thereby eligible to play for Middlesex teams (other sports may do it differently):

Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Newham, Richmond (the part north of the Thames, the part south of the Thames is Surrey), Tower Hamlets, City of Westminster, (and City of London too).

The remaining five boroughs north of the Thames, from Waltham Forest eastwards are regarded as part of Essex. The 11 boroughs south of the Thames are regarded as Surrey and Kent. Essex Surrey and Kent county teams can also draw on players living/ working/ studying/ born in the non-London parts of those counties. But there are (post-abolition) no non-London parts of Middlesex these days,

The redrawing of bounary lines with the abolition of first the London County Council and then the Greater London Council, and the reorganisation of postal districts has left some strange anomalies in its wake.

Potters Bar, once part of Middlesex, is now part of Hertfordshire. Fair enough, you might say as it is clearly outside of London. but parts of Barnet, eg East Barnet, though clearly in London, also have Hertfordshire postal addresses.

The history goes back a long way. There were 39 historic traditional counties in England of which Middlesex was the second smallest afer Rutland.

The names Middlesex (Middle Saxons), Essex (East Saxons) and Sussex (South Saxons) all reflect the Angles and Saxons' invasions of South East England after the Romans left. (The Angles settled in East Anglia, the Jutes in Kent.)

These smaller groupings became subsumed under the kingdom of Wessex (West Saxons), In many areas, the kingdom of Wessex represented annexed, previously independent, kingdoms or other tribal territories.

Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England. It was named after the West Saxons and was situated in the south and southwest of England. It existed as a kingdom from the 6th century until the emergence of the English state in the 9th century (when Egbert of Wessex became the first King of England) and as an earldom between 1016 and 1066. The earldom was recently revived for His Royal Highness The Prince Edward.

Middlesex was recorded in the Domesday Book as being divided into the six hundreds of Edmonton, Elthorne, Gore, Hounslow (later Isleworth), Ossulstone and Spelthorne.

The more recent (and complex) history since 1889 is given in the second link below.

A bit like the abolition of Pluto's status as a planet, it may not officially exist as a county now, but many people still think of it as one and it lives on in hearts and minds and in the sports teams bearing its name. With 1400 years of history behind it, including its own heraldic coat of arms dating from the Heptarchy (three "seaxes" or notched swords beneath a Saxon crown on a red background*), that is to be expected.

Answer 2

What State/ Country are you talking about?

There is a city called Middlesex Borough in New Jersey, USA, which is ALSO THE COUNTY SEAT of Middlesex County in eastern New Jersey. Zip code= 08846

Here's the link to the city's homepage:
http://www.middlesexboro.com/index.php
Zip Code map Link:
http://www.zipcodemapping.com/ez/0/08846.html

Answer 3

Middlesex is a county

Answer 4

Middlesex was a county but is now part of London

Answer 5

Middlesex IS the county.

Answer 6

Middlesex is a county

Answer 7

Middlesex USED to be a County I believe, I guess its in LONDON, centred around BRENT I think!

Sorry, just realised, I hope you mean the English Middlesex???

Answer 8

Middlesex is a county.

Answer 9

Middlesex is in London

Answer 10

middlesex was a county, heathrow, hounslow, staines, feltham all in middlesex, they just did away with the county council as such, staines is now under spellthorne council and the others I cant remember, it happened a long time ago

Answer 11

middlesex is a county