school location london or surrey there's been an amusing tit for tat re edit of the location of whitgift school as a result of user samtheboy mistakenly believing that the school is in the county of surrey without wishing to sound like an anorak this greater london vs the 'old' county boundaries around london is a bit of an old chestnut significant changes in local government in the s and s the result of the inexorable spread of suburban london meant that towns like croydon kingston and bromley in the south were swallowed up by london becoming the london borough of croydon etc one old county middlesex disappeared altogether confusingly the post office retained the old names disregarding the new borough locations and to this day people in places like thornton heath believe they live in surrey a fact which couldn't be further from the truth the same is true of south croydon which is in the london borough of croydon and hence greater london the county of surrey begins further down the road and the local council taxpayers commercial ratepayers and other residents of south croydon pay their taxes have their roads repaired and their refuse collected by the local london borough i suppose the reaction is who cares but if wikipedia has pretentions to accuracy we should get these things right nowhere will samtheboy or anyone else find any accurate evidence that whitgift school is in surrey because the simple fact is that it is not end of sermon