Geography
Romford Kingston upon Thames Harrow Bromley Wimbledon Greenwich Enfield Westminster Ilford Chingford Camden Stratford Richmond Wembley Hayes Uxbridge Sydenham Tottenham City Bexleyheath Biggin Hill Edgware Upminster Woolwich Sutton Ealing Hounslow Barnet Barking WalthamstowGreater London is bounded by the home counties of Essex and Hertfordshire in the East of England; Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent in South East England. The highest point in Greater London is Westerham Heights, in the North Downs and on the boundary with Kent, at 245 metres (804 ft).
The area of Greater London has not changed significantly since its creation, but there have been a considerable number of small boundary changes. The most significant of these were the 1969 transfers of Knockholt to Kent and Farleigh to Surrey and a series of minor adjustments during the 1990s that realigned the boundary to the M25 motorway in some places. The majority of Greater London forms the London low emission zone from 4 February 2008.
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