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Middlesex: tags: [geography]

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an historic county in south-east England. It is now entirely within the wider urbanised area of London. Its area is now also mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in other neighbouring ceremonial counties.

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in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses have been built in one quarter of Westminster, exclusive of what is daily added to other parts of this unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico and Knightsbridge are now almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington; and if this infatuation continues for half a century, I suppose the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick.

Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

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It was past midnight when I crossed London Bridge. Pursuing the narrow intricacies of the streets which at that time tended westward near the Middlesex shore of the river, my readiest access to the Temple was close by the river-side, through Whitefriars.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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wise woman: Hail Edmund, lord of adders black.

Blackadder: Hello.

wise woman: Step no nearer, for already I see thy bloody purpose. Thou plot is, Blackadder: thou wouldst be king and drown Middlesex* in a butt of wine.**

Edmund: No, no, no, no. it is far worse than that. I'm in love with my man servant.

BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Bells

^{* referring to the Earl of Middlesex}

^{** This is likely a glancing reference to George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence who is usually portrayed as having drowned in a butt of wine.}

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