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Map of the 32 London boroughs and the City of London. This is a list of local authority districts within Greater London, including 32 London boroughs and the City of London. The London boroughs were all created on 1 April 1965. Upon creation, twelve were designated Inner London boroughs and the remaining twenty were designated Outer London ...
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
The London boroughs were incorporated using the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882. [5] In the London boroughs the legal entity is not the council, as elsewhere in the country, but the inhabitants incorporated as a legal entity by royal charter (a process abolished elsewhere in England and Wales under the Local Government Act 1972).
A labelled map of the Greater London Built-up Area with administrative borders. The Greater London Built-up Area, or Greater London Urban Area, is a conurbation in south-east England that constitutes the continuous urban sprawl of London, and includes surrounding adjacent urban towns as defined by the Office for National Statistics. [1]
Outer London is the name for the group of London boroughs that form a ring around Inner London. [1] Together, the inner and outer boroughs form London , the capital city of the United Kingdom . The population at the 2021 Census was 5,395,500, which means over 60% of the population of Greater London lives in Outer London.
John Rocque's 24-sheet map. In 1746, the French-born British surveyor and cartographer John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these has the full name A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark: it is a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile (i.e. 1:2437), surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John ...
Outline of the London region. London is the largest urban area and the capital city of the United Kingdom.It lies in the southeastern part of the island of Great Britain.The London region covers 1,579 square kilometres (610 sq mi), and had a population of 8.982 million in 2019 and a population density of 5,596 people per square km in 2021.
The London Borough of Bexley (/ ˈ b ɛ k s l i / ⓘ) is a London borough in south-east London, forming part of Outer London. It has a population of 248,287. It has a population of 248,287. The main settlements are Sidcup , Erith , Bexleyheath , Crayford , Welling and Old Bexley .