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Magical time in London

Magical time in London

London is the capital of England and largest city of both England and of the United Kingdom, it is also the largest city in Western Europe and the European Union. Most residents of Greater London are very proud of their capital, the multiculturalism of the city. At its centre stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. Across the Thames River, the London Eye observation wheel provides panoramic views of the South Bank cultural complex, and the entire city.

Greater London consists of 32 London boroughs and the City of London that, together with the office of the Mayor of London, form the basis for London's local government.

Central London:
Bloomsbury
City of London
Covent Garden
Holborn-Clerkenwell
Leicester Square
Mayfair-Marylebone
Notting Hill-North Kensington
Paddington-Maida Vale
Soho
South Bank
South Kensington-Chelsea
Westminster

Inner London Areas:
Camden
East End
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Hampstead
Islington
Lambeth
Southwark-Lewisham
Wandsworth

Outer London Areas:
West-Taking in much of the ancient English county of Middlesex
North-Largely made up of lush green upper middle-class/bourgeois suburbs, many of which were formerly part of the counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire before being absorbed into Greater London.
East-Mostly originally part of the county of Essex, taking in former industrial areas on the upper Thames Estuary such as Beckton, Dagenham and Barking. Includes Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympic Games
South-Originally divided between Kent and Surrey and Containing many commuter suburbs with housing of all sizes and styles.
Richmond-Kew
Wimbledon

London has existed in various incarnations for two millennia. The commercial capital was the City of London. This had a dense population and all the other pre-requisites of a medieval city: walls, a castle (The Tower of London), a cathedral (Saint Pauls), a semi-independent City government, a port and a bridge across which all trade was routed so Londoners could make money (London Bridge).

About an hour upstream (on foot or by boat) around a bend in the river was the government capital (Westminster). This had a church for crowning the monarch (Westminster Abbey) and palaces. As each palace was replaced by a larger one, the previous one was used for government, first the Palace of Westminster (better known as the Houses of Parliament), then Whitehall, then Buckingham Palace. The two were linked by a road called The Strand, old English for riverbank.

Modern-day London in these terms is a two-centre city, with the area in between known confusingly as the West End. However, even this doesn't define the actual central area of London, which extends slightly beyond the City and Westminster, as inner portions of the surrounding boroughs (Kensington & Chelsea, Camden, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Southwark and Lambeth) also lie within Central London.

A lot to see in London such as :

Big Ben
Buckingham Palace
London Eye
Tower of London
Tower Bridge
Hyde Park
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's Cathedral
Palace of Westminster
Trafalgar Square
River Thames
Covent Garden
Natural History Museum
The National Gallery
The Shard
Piccadilly Circus
Oxford Street
London Bridge
Tate Modern
Kensington Palace
Madame Tussauds London
The Regent's Park
Victoria and Albert Museum
Borough Market
Soho
Camden Town
South Bank
Notting Hill
St James's Park
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Camden Market
ZSL London Zoo
Hampton Court Palace
Kensington Gardens
Millennium Bridge
Royal Observatory Greenwich
The London Dungeon
Shakespeare's Globe
Central London
Portobello Road
Monument to the Great Fire of London
Churchill War Rooms
SEA LIFE London Aquarium
Science Museum
Richmond Park
Hampstead Heath
Museum of London
Royal Albert Hall
Leicester Square
Canary Wharf

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