London Gazetteer

London is one of the world's great cities. Although no longer in the very top rank demographically it completely dominates its corner of England, exerts a political, economic and cultural gravitational pull over the rest of the UK and as a global hub has no rival in Europe except perhaps for Paris. London is not only dominant, but it also sprawls. Administratively it extends across 610 square miles having engulfed numerous hamlets, villages and towns. For visitors and tourists, however, London is usually the streets and sites between the Tower in the east and Hyde Park in the west with...