In london, the street signs have their area code. why not in bromley? it's still a part of london.?

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Neil

Do you mean their post code?

Anyway, Bromley isn't in London. It's in Kent.

Ò‰FuzzyÒ‰ - Ò‰No-NosedÒ‰ - Ò‰ChimpÒ‰

It's unusual, but it is down to Bromley Council. You have to remember that London is so big that it does have councils for some rather small areas.

spunkybadger69

I think this is because Bromley has a BR post code and not an SE one...

This makes Bromley a part of Kent and not South East London.

Dunrobin

Bromley and Bexley are slightly odd London boroughs which have London dialling (at least Bexley does) and Kent postcodes. London's postcodes were first allocated in the 1850s; I'm not sure what Bromley and Bexley's status was then.

Sangmo

Bromley's postcode letters are BR. As in the old expression "Brrr... it's rather bromley today".

wei_bei_li

think you'll find Bromley is in Kent or it was a little while ago they may have moved it

Tom W

It stand to reason that smaller places do not need to put the postcode on street signs - Bromley is all TN26 (I think?) so why differentiate one road from another, whereas in London there are many different postcodes cheek-by-jowel. Also, there are less chances of getting duplicate road names in a small town or village, whereas in a large city, there may be ten roads of the same name but in different postcodes.

Curious

I think it's just up to the council.

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Bromley is in the County of Kent, but is also in the London Borough of Bromley.

The London postal areas (e.g. EC4, SW19, SE9) were designated long before metropolitan London expanded to its present administrative boundaries to include areas like Bromley, Croydon and Bexley.

dot&carryone.

Bromley is in another world to the rest!

migelito

London and possibly some of the larger cities are the exception, most places don't put the postcode on their street signs.

thecharleslloyd

Talk to your local council, they are the ones that can change it.

Mecoves

I think is because London is expanding it's geographic size and to accommodate to people's need, more and more people starts to live in Bromley and work in London. For that reason, it needs to have a better network system and a more developed transport system.
I am also not too sure, if Bromley is part of Kent and why the London Bus from the London Transport also goes there?
One more doubt, if i am not wrong, the underground doesn't go to Bromley as i am not living in UK for 3 years time already, i don't have the updated infos.

Sara P

I thought technically its Kent as it doesnt have a london postcode ie, W5, E17.....

I do realise I could be wrong about the postcode, its a guess.

asbo_arry

Bromley is in the county of Kent - the postal code starts with 'BR'. Croydon, Surrey also has that 'is it or isn't it' bugbear.

lofty550

bromley is kent

new-in-town

although bromley is a borough of london it geographically lies in kent.

Kangkid

Like most people I thought Bromley was in Kent, But I had a looksee and found the council site and it calls it self The London Borough. Suppose you can e-mail them and ask why??

http://www.bromley.gov.uk/Default.bromley

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