London Flat
Numerous people may want to have vacations in London city. Some may want to stay at large or small hotels in the city. Some may want to at luxury or cheap hotels in the city. Some may want to stay at impressive hotels. Some may want to stay at hotels that are well known. Some may want to stay at hotels that are luxury or cheap. Some may want to stay at high quality hotels.
Numerous people may want to have vacations in London city.
London is one of the world's most important business, financial and cultural centres and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion and the arts contributes to its status as a major global city. Central London is the headquarters of more than half of the UK's top 100 listed companies (the FTSE 100) and over 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies. The city is a major tourist destination for both domestic and overseas visitors, with annual expenditure by tourists of around £15 billion. London hosted the 1908 and 1948 Summer Olympic Games and will host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Samuel Johnson, author of the first attempted complete dictionary, famously wrote about the city, citing “You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
Greater London contains major historic sites such as the Tower of London; the historic settlement of Greenwich; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church.
The Greater London Urban Area includes most, but not all of Greater London (for example excluding Biggin Hill, which is surrounded by countryside), while taking in many surrounding areas such as Hemel Hempstead, Woking and Dartford that aren't generally considered parts of London itself and lie outside London's borders. It is a wholly urban area, so it is not as large as the metropolitan area. The urban area does not include places such as Slough, Luton and Potters Bar, that have gaps of countryside in between the towns themselves and the main urban area of London. The Metropolitan area has a population of 12-14 million, depending on which borders are used. The figure used by Government agencies as the area to which people commute in to London from for work is also slightly different and is known as the Travel to Work Area.
The growth of the urban area's physical extent has largely been curtailed since the development of the Metropolitan Green Belt in 1938, which limited development within a ring of countryside around London. As London's economy has grown and house prices have risen this has led to the growth of the London commuter belt - the London urban area, plus a ring of towns that are physically separate from the urban area but still functionally operate largely as suburbs, with large proportions of their populations dependent on the urban area for employment. Most of the population growth of the Greater London Urban Area is the result of brownfield development and increasing population density.
Within Greater London
Barking and Dagenham
Barnet
Bexley
Brent
Bromley
Camden
Croydon
Ealing
Enfield
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Harrow
Havering
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Lewisham
City of London
Merton
Newham
Redbridge
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Tower Hamlets
Waltham
Forest
Wandsworth
Westminster
Outside Greater London
Addlestone
Amersham
Ashtead
Banstead/Tadworth
Bushey
Caterham and Warlingham
Chertsey
Cheshunt
Chigwell
Chorleywood
Dartford
Egham
Epsom and Ewell
Esher/Molesey
Hemel Hempstead
High Wycombe
Hoddesdon
Kings Langley
Leatherhead
Loughton
Ottershaw
Rickmansworth
Shepperton
South Oxhey
Staines
Sunbury
Sunningdale/Ascot
Virginia Water
Waltham Abbey
Walton and Weybridge
Watford
West
End
Windlesham
Woking/Byfleet
Plague caused extensive problems
for London in the early 17th century, culminating in the Great Plague in 1665–1666
that killed 70,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. This
was the last major outbreak in England, possibly thanks to the disastrous fire
of 1666. The Great Fire of London broke out in the original City and quickly swept
through London's wooden buildings, destroying large swathes of the city. A first
hand narrative of both plague and fire was provided by Sir Samuel Pepys.[ Rebuilding
took over ten years, largely under direction of a Commission appointed by King
Charles II, chaired by Sir Christopher Wren, and supervised by Robert Hooke as
newly appointed Surveyor of London.
Following London's growth in the 18th
century, it became the world's largest city from about 1831 to 1925.
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