For those of you who know the area

[20wedding19]

My husband and I have recently bought our first property.
It is near Welling High Street. So it is in The London borough of Bexley but some say it is in Kent
Welling station is in zone 4. So simple question. Would you say Welling is in Kent or London please?

I'm the next postcode along from you and I say SE London.

Welcome to Bexley!

YABU for not including the place name in the title, and so making me click on thread to see if it was local to me.

I love the benefit of uncertainty, as I can tell people I'm from London or from Kent depending on which seems more descriptive.

So odd to see the non-descriptive title then find it's about my actual town :D

Bexley woods and Hall Place and Gardens are lovely 😊

Sounds like we need a Welling meet up!

Regarding places of interest, Woodlands Farm and Severndroog Castle are both on Shooters Hill.

@Pinkflipflop85 - we are TTC now so fingere crossed!
I am starting a nanny job though when we move so child friendly suggestions more than welcome. Nanny children are under 5 x

And The Red House, Chislehurst Caves (just a little way away), and the jewel in the crown which is the Furze Wren in Bexleyheath.

Fingers ffs. Should read my posts before posting them

Definitely the farm then. There is a toddler group there on Thursday morning and you can wander round and look at the animals any time it's open for free (donations appreciated I imagine!).

@20wedding19 Yes, Bluewater is definitely Kent . Greenhithe.

I live in Bromley, interchangeable between kent and london, I use both

MIL lives in Lewisham but on the border. She always uses Kent for the address although I know technically they are not used but lots of websites do ask for the county. Counties do still exist even if they are not used by Royal Mail.

A BR postcode says Kent to me. A SE postcode says Greater London. Likewise Kingston (which is the county town of Surrey anyway) - KT postcode is Surrey, SW postcode is London.

DA postcode would say Kent to me, not London. Dartford is definitely Kent.

Although I'd have said TW postcode wasn't London, but Twickenham feels like London to me :)

"Most addresses will be welling, kent DA...."

Officially no address will have Kent in them, none, not even that that are really in Kent. The Royal Mail no longer put Counties/Boroughs in addresses.

People can add them back in if they want to, and the Royal Mail will just ignore them. But why be boring and go for Kent? If you're going to put one of the places that the address used to be in then be ambitious! Go for "The Roman Province of Britannia", or "Maxima Caesariensis" if you like your Latin.

Your MIL is likely in my area @berlinbabylon

Our postcode is BR1 Bromley and our council is Lewisham , SE13.
This was the same when I was growing up . We lived then in SE13 but rent went to nearby Greenwich SE10 . Boundary things.

Thanks for all the suggestions! All going well, we will be moving there in 3 weeks

There is no such thing as a Kent postcode. Loads of postcodes cover Kent. TN, DA, CT etc. Some postcodes where the first two letters cover areas of Kent also can have the same two letters covering areas that aren't in Kent, but are in London. Such as DA.

This isn't unique to London/Kent borders. UB8 is in London, but UB9 is in Buckinghamshire.

Your postcode doesn't tell you if you are in Kent or London. Who do you pay your council tax to tells you. If you're in the London Borough of whatever, you aren't in Kent, Bucks, Surrey or anywhere else. You're in London.

Whether or not it "feels like London" matters not one jot. As someone else said, when the Met police come to your home with a search warrant, try telling them you want Kent police and see how far you get.

I live in Bromley, interchangeable between kent and london, I use both

They are not interchangeable. When you use London, you are right, and when you use Kent, you are wrong.

WhentheRabbitsWentWild you’re spookily similar to me, grew up se3 paying in Greenwich. Now one of the first BR roads that pays bromley council, had a lot of questions about lewisham borough schools that are closer to me than bromley.

Lifecraft I stand corrected - just googled, Bromley doesn’t fall under Kent at all...wonder why I got that wrong

@BadgersPaws2 I am delighted to find someone else as obsessed as me as pointing out counties shouldn't be in addresses.

Going to try to find the thread from a few months ago where I argued about it for days!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3710665-To-be-annoyed-at-people-who-live-in-a-London-Borough-but-insist-they-dont-i-e-Im-in-Surrey-Kent-etc?pg=1&order=

There. Counties in addresses discussed at great length.

There are a lot of web forms that still ask for it. Where it is a free text box is put N/a. If it is a dropdown I put Kent and get annoyed.

@SheilaBruce Harrow is a place and a London Borough and Brent is a borough next door.

@SheilaBruce Same argument applies to Brent (London Borough) and Harrow (Middlesex). The postcode is HA for Harrow and technically Middlesex, but it sits in LB Brent.
No, Harrow is not in Brent, Harrow is in LB Harrow, HA postcodes do exist in Brent the same way as UB postcodes exist in LB Ealing

@Lifecraft This isn't unique to London/Kent borders. UB8 is in London, but UB9 is in Buckinghamshire.
UB9 is London Borough of Hillingdon not Buckinghamshire

Does anyone outside London/SE have these battles? I mean how important can it actually be?

@DappledThings and @BadgersPaws2
I have found my people - I have the argument about Counties in Addressees on a regular basis.

As for people saying somewhere has "a Kent Postcode" that's just batshit - there is NO SUCH THING.

Postcodes relate to post towns on the whole, not counties. Hence there are lots of "anomalies". NG10 (Nottingham) is in Derbyshire, DE55 (Derby) is in South Yorkshire.

Solidarity Hingeandbracket!

There's now a new thread in Chat about this too...