This is a list of those London areas that currently have the suffix (London) due to clashes with other areas or for other clarity reasons (eg South Bank - not an official area but much easier to describe that bit along the Thames and Theatreland which Westminster is signposting on street names):
Grange Park (London)
Whitton (London)
Hanworth (London)
Shirley (London)
Charlton (London)
Whetstone (London)
West Green (London)
Hampton (London)
Underhill (London)
Belmont (London)
Brompton (London)
Temple (London)
Theatreland (London)
South Bank (London)
Newington (London)
St. James’s (London)
Are there any others that ought to take the suffix?
David
PS I remember that Shirley was to be reallocated to Croydon, on that basis Underhill ought to go to Barnet. Or do we want to keep anything in the Greater London area as London?
Actually Charlton probably shouldn’t be on that list.
Originally, the unadorned “Charlton” name was on a small village in Hampshire. I checked via the gazetteer and the London area was the largest, so I spoke to the local AM. He kindly changed his village to “Charlton (Hants)” and I’ve been trying ever since to put “Charlton” on the London segments, but getting the “too far” error.
I assumed that was due to a lack of city layer updates but, after I became level 5, I decided to try “walking” the city name over from it’s original location. Only now, I can’t set a segment to “Charlton” even in the original location. I’m guessing someone else has now used the name on one of the other Charltons :lol: , but I must admit it hasn’t been high on my priority list to go find it!
As for Shirley: as a long time resident of South London, “Shirley (Croydon)” feels much more correct than “Shirley (London)”. Not based on any official source whatsoever - it’s just that I think of Shirley as part of Croydon and of Croydon as a distinct area south of London.
I can’t think of any others that need the prefix, but I’ve not done any work on locality names for some time - I have already done extensive work around the Lewisham/Eltham/Sidcup area and have been waiting ages for a city layer update before doing any more. In the past, I’ve always checked the gazetteer to see if the London place was the largest and if any others had got the name first. Now as a CM, if I found multiple choices for a name, I’d probably end up naming all of them.
Thanks, David. I guess that tonesav must have managed to “jump in” at some point in time between DG567 removing it from the first village and me trying to add it London. 
I presume that, given the relative sizes of that village & the London suburb, I would be quite justified in adding the county suffix to the village & removing the (London) from the suburb? If so, I’ll get that done this evening (and send a PM to let tonesav know what I’m doing).
You might have to wait a while after deleting the old version unless you walk it across.
In the wiki discussion on how to label cities, I updated the wording about London localities which have postal addresses in the old counties - Belmont was used as an example, where Belmont near Sutton is shown as Belmont (Surrey), and Belmont near Harrow should be shown as Belmont (Middx).
So…
Can we rename Belmont (London) as Belmont (Middx)?
Hanworth and Whitton both have TW postcodes and are north of the Thames, so should also be (Middx). Also Whetstone and Hampton.
I would personally go for Shirley (Croydon) (as the postal address is Shirley, Croydon, CR0 nxx) rather than Shirley (Surrey), but definitely not (London).
Shouldn’t St. James be (Westminster)? And Middle Temple Ln is just east of the boundary between the City of London and City of Westminster, so perhaps streets west of there should be in Strand (Westminster), and east in Temple (City of London).
As you can see, I’d like to get rid of the London suffix completely, and where there’s an obvious alternative, such as the old county name or post-town as used in the postal address, we should use that.
Is there another Brompton on the map without a suffix? I could find Brompton (N Yorks), but after that, Waze only offered me US versions. So, like Charlton (once Iain’s sorted it), Brompton could go without a suffix.