Areas Of London: London Attraction Travel Guide, Museums, London Parks & Gardens

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If you’re interested in seeing all that London has to offer, check out our London events and festivals directory and see what it can offer you. London, Ontario has a strong community spirit with arts, music and food, and sports-related events almost every week in the summer, big charity drives throughout the year, and a host of tourist spots.

Areas of London

Defining the exact area that London covers is difficult but most consider London to be any area that falls within the M25 motorway which almost encircles Greater London. This actually takes you into parts of Kent, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex but the boundaries between Greater London and the adjoining counties are hard to distinguish with the naked eye. Many of those that have been born and bred in these surrounding areas in essence consider themselves to be “Londoners”.

Inner London is broken down into approximately 120 postcodes and a similar amount can be applied to Greater London. Each of these postcodes falls under one of 32 inner or outer London Boroughs.

280,000 'city gents', stockbrokers, traders and shopkeepers pile into the City every weekday morning, and pile out again every evening. The average lunchtime will see the streets filled with a seething mass of dark suits; the health conscious scurry to find a quick bite from one of the many excellent sandwich bars, while the more choleric disappear into one of the countless dungeonesque wine bars or city pubs where daylight is an ugly word and a lunch hour can conclude well after sunset.

And yet, this unashamedly capitalist crucible hides another side. On a weekend, the majority of ancient streets (which include part of the Roman Watling Street) are empty and silent. Here you will find the very heart of London: the original settlement from which the rest of London has sprawled.

Between the ultra modern office buildings lies a diaspora of history from the great Victorian and Edwardian edifices of commerce such as the Royal Exchange to the Roman Temple of Minerva on Queen Victoria Street. Around you are a dazzling array of churches - 39 Anglican (Church of England) and 7 other denominations. Many were built by Wren as part of his grand scheme to resurrect London after the Great Fire of 1666 which started in Pudding Lane and decimated much of the city.

These churches are resplendent in their classical elegance and fine internal furnishings. Some have bizarre historical names such as St. Andrew Undershaft, or St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe (so called because of it's proximity to Wardrobe Court which used to house the King's goods and chattels).