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Lists: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List". UNESCO World Heritage Centre . Retrieved 26 November 2008. Mills, David (2001). A Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford University Press. p.140. ISBN 9780192801067. OCLC 45406491. Mills, AD (2010). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford University Press. p. 152. Of course until relatively recent times the name London referred only to the City of London with even Westminster remaining a separate entity. But when the County of London was created in 1888, the name often came to be rather loosely used for this much larger area, which was also sometimes referred to as Greater London from about this date. However, in 1965 Greater London was newly defined as a much enlarged area. Why London Is The World's Busiest City For Air Travel". Simple Flying. 16 August 2021 . Retrieved 26 June 2022. Flooding". UK Environment Agency. Archived from the original on 15 February 2006 . Retrieved 19 June 2006.

The London Plan (March 2015)". Greater London Authority. 15 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016 . Retrieved 24 March 2021. Mammals". cityoflondon.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015 . Retrieved 16 November 2014. There is a slight chance that damage to buildings and homes could occur, with roofs blown off and power lines and trees brought down Leppard, David (10 April 2005). "Immigration Rise Increases Segregation in British Cities". The Times. Archived from the original on 11 February 2008 . Retrieved 25 March 2021. London was bombed by the Germans in the First World War, and during the Second World War, the Blitz and other bombings by the German Luftwaffe killed over 30,000 Londoners, destroying large tracts of housing and other buildings across the city. [85] The tomb of the Unknown Warrior, an unidentified member of the British armed forces killed during the First World War, was buried in Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920. [86] The Cenotaph, located in Whitehall, was unveiled on the same day, and is the focal point for the National Service of Remembrance held annually on Remembrance Sunday, the closest Sunday to 11 November. [87]

London Government Act 1963. Office of Public Sector Information. 1996. ISBN 978-0-16-053895-7. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010 . Retrieved 6 May 2008. Tinniswood, Adrian. "A History of British Architecture— White Tower". BBC. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009 . Retrieved 5 May 2008. With the early 5th-century collapse of Roman rule, the walled city of Londinium was effectively abandoned, although Roman civilisation continued around St Martin-in-the-Fields until about 450. [44] From about 500, an Anglo-Saxon settlement known as Lundenwic developed slightly west of the old Roman city. [45] By about 680 the city had become a major port again, but there is little evidence of large-scale production. From the 820s repeated Viking assaults brought decline. Three are recorded; those in 851 and 886 succeeded, while the last, in 994, was rebuffed. [46]

Taylor, Brian (2002). "1976. The Incredible Heatwave". TheWeatherOutlook. Archived from the original on 12 July 2008 . Retrieved 25 March 2021. Opened in 1863, the London Underground, commonly referred to as the Tube or just the Underground, is the oldest and third longest metro system in the world. [281] [282] The system serves 272 stations, and was formed from several private companies, including the world's first underground electric line, the City and South London Railway, which opened in 1890. [283] Bomb-Damage Maps Reveal London's World War II Devastation". nationalgeographic.com.au. 18 May 2016. Archived from the original on 30 April 2017 . Retrieved 18 June 2017. Early this morning, an area of heavy and showery rain will clear eastwards to leave variable cloud, sunny spells and blustery showers, easing for a time in the afternoon. Remaining windy. The 2021 census recorded that 3,575,739 people or 40.6% of London's population were foreign-born, [194] making it among the cities with the largest immigrant population in terms of absolute numbers. About 69% of children born in London in 2015 had at least one parent who was born abroad. [195]

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The Heraldic Dragon". Sacred-texts.com. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017 . Retrieved 23 July 2015. About Saint Paul's". Dean and Chapter St Paul's. 7 April 2008. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008 . Retrieved 25 March 2021. London has been the setting for many works of literature. The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's late 14th-century Canterbury Tales set out for Canterbury from London. William Shakespeare spent a large part of his life living and working in London; his contemporary Ben Jonson was also based there, and some of his work, most notably his play The Alchemist, was set in the city. [369] A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe is a fictionalisation of the events of the 1665 Great Plague. [369]