Local Government Act 1958

Sections 17, 66.

FIFTH SCHEDULE The Metropolitan Area

For the purposes of this Act the metropolitan area shall consist of the administrative counties of London and Middlesex, the county boroughs of Croydon, East Ham and West Ham, the following county districts in the county of Surrey, that is to say the boroughs of Barnes, Beddington and Wallington, Epsom and Ewell, Kingston-upon-Thames, Maiden and Coombe, Mitcham, Richmond, Surbiton, Sutton and Cheam and Wimbledon and the urban districts of Banstead, Carshalton, Caterham and Warlingham, Coulsdon and Purley, Esher, Merton and Morden and Walton and Weybridge, the following county districts in the county of Kent, that is to say the boroughs of Beckenham, Bexley, Bromley, Dartford and Erith and the urban districts of Chislehurst and Sidcup, Crayford, Orpington and Penge, the following county districts and parishes in the county of Hertford, that is to say the borough of Watford, the urban districts of Barnet, Bushey, Cheshunt, Chorleywood, East Barnet and Rickmansworth, the rural district of Elstree and the parish of Northaw in the rural district of Hatfield and the parishes of Aldenham and Watford Rural in the rural district of Watford, and the following county districts in the county of Essex, that is to say the boroughs of Barking, Chingford, Dagenharn, Hford, Leyton, Romford, Walthamstow and Wanstead and Woodford and the urban districts of Chigwell, Hornchurch and Waltham Holy Cross.