I was reading in the "ECHO" a while back that an american university was doing a study of economic growth of major european cities .Southampton economic area was predicted to be the 5th largest in England by 2017 ,I think those figures are correct,so making us bigger than mersey side and bristol.I thought at the time that it was a mistake until I saw a map of the "Southampton economic area" which included.All of the New forest,Salisbury, Basingstoke,Winchester and as far east as Bognor. Thus making P***PEY part of southampton