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Background. [] 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.
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the City of London. Aldersgate Court and Aldersgate Street – the name Aldersgate is first recorded around 1000 in the form Ealdredesgate, i.e. 'gate associated with a man named Ealdrād'.
The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km 2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early ...
The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode. [1] There are currently 121 geographic postcode areas in use in the UK and a further three often combined with these covering the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man.
London Docklands: the former docks and now a regeneration area; London Plan sub-regions: North East, North, South East, South West, West; Various postcode areas covering London; Public transport zones: 1 (central London); 2 (inner city); 3 and 4, (inner suburbs); 5 and 6 (outer suburbs)
The W (Western and Paddington) postcode area, also known as the London W postcode area[2] is a group of postcode districts covering part of central and part of West London, England. The area originates from the Western (W1) and Paddington (W2-14) districts [3] of the London postal district. This area covers 35 postcode districts and around ...
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 ...
2,610. Postcodes (total) 7,424. Statistics as at May 2020 [1] The WC (Western Central) postcode area, also known as the London WC postcode area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in central London, England. The area covered is of high density development, and includes parts of the City of Westminster and the London Boroughs of Camden and ...