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Areas of London
- SohoSoho sits at the heart of London's West End, roughly one square mile of streets that have housed aristocrats, Huguenot refugees, jazz musicians, cholera…
- BayswaterThe name Bayswater emerged from the 1380 placename Bayards Watering Place. This Middle English phrase described either a watering place for horses or a…
- WoolwichWoolwich has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age. Remains of a probably Celtic oppidum, established sometime between the 3rd and 1st century BCE, were…
- ShoreditchThe name Shoreditch appears in records from 1183 as Soresdic, and again in 1204 as Sordig. Toponymists generally agree the word derives from Old English…
- SouthwarkSouthwark, pronounced SUDH-ək by Londoners, sits on the south bank of the Thames, directly south of London Bridge. Around 43 AD, Roman engineers found the…
- GreenwichThe name Greenwich first appeared in an Anglo-Saxon charter from the year 918, recorded as Gronewic. By 964, scribes wrote it as Grenewic, and the…
- East End of LondonThe East End of London has never had agreed borders. It has no single founder, no clear start date, and no official definition.
- WestminsterWestminster sits at the centre of one of the most politically charged stretches of land in the world, running from the River Thames north to Oxford Street.
- Blackfriars, LondonThe name Blackfriars first appears in official records from 1317, though the community itself began decades earlier. Dominican Friars established their…
- West End of LondonLondon's West End of London began as a distinct entity from the City of London in medieval times. Two adjacent cities existed side by side, each maintaining…