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London 51°36′22″N 0°17′02″W / 51.606°N 0.284°W / 51.606; Little Stanmore was an ancient parish of Middlesex which is today the residential area of Canons Park in the London Borough of Harrow , England.
Whitchurch is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is on the A413 road about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Aylesbury and 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Winslow .
The A41 is a trunk road between London and Birkenhead, England.Now in parts replaced by motorways, it passes through or near Watford, Kings Langley, Hemel Hempstead, Aylesbury, Bicester, Solihull, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Newport, Whitchurch, Chester and Ellesmere Port.
Whitchurch railway station serves the town of Whitchurch in Hampshire, England. It is 59 miles 8 chains (95.1 km) down the line from London Waterloo . The station is served and operated by South Western Railway .
The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England.. Passenger services run between London Waterloo station and Exeter; the line intersects with the Wessex Main Line at
Over the years, the direction of the road has taken many detours depending on such factors as changes in tolls or turnpike patronage. For example, in 1750 the toll road from London was altered to go through Melksham; [4] and in 1695 the map maker, John Ogilby, produced a map of the Hungerford area of the Great West Road showing two possible ...
Roman Britain with Watling Street highlighted in red. The section of the A5 between London and Shrewsbury is roughly contiguous with one of the principal Roman roads in Britain: that between Londinium (modern-day London) and Deva (modern-day Chester), which diverges from the present-day A5 corridor at Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) near Shrewsbury.
London, capital of Roman Britain, was established on two hills, now known as Cornhill and Ludgate Hill. These provided a firm base for a trading centre at the lowest possible point on the Thames. [34] A river crossing was built at the site of London Bridge. London Bridge is now used as the basis for published tide tables giving the times of ...