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 * 1907
 * 640 square miles
 * "included Ealing on the west, whence, sweeping northward, it reaches Harrow and Barnet. In the north-east Waltham Abbey is embraced, while due east the furthest limit is Romford. On the south the circle is very wide, going as far into Surrey as Reigate."
 * Population 6,000,000
 * 3 Districts:
 * Central Metropolitan: whole of the City, and extends eastward to about Bow, southward to the Elephant and Castle, westward to Westminster and Regent's Park, and nortnward to Islington.
 * South Metropolitan: embraces Kensington, Richmond, Wimbledon, Epsom, Balham, Streatham, Croydon, Sydenham, Bromley, Dartford, Redhill, Sutton, and Reigate.
 * North Metropolitan: includes Hammersmith, Ealing, Harlesden, Harrow, Finchley, Barnet, Tottenham, Dalston, Enfield, Walthamstow, Stratford, Tilbury, Romford, and Barking.
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 * 1926
 * 750 square miles
 * "Waltham Cross in the north, to Reigate in the south and from Hayes in the west to Tilbury in the east"
 * 476,813 subscribers
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