A presentation illustrating the main features of Greater London in detail

1. London

2. CENTRAL LONDON
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Buckingham Palace ●
Westminster Palace
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Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the ●
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses
British Monarch. The palace is a setting for state occasions
of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, is
and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction. It
where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United
has been a rallying point for the British people at times of
Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of
national rejoicing and crisis.
Commons) meet. The palace lies on the north bank of
the River Thames.
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10 Downing Street
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10 Downing Street is the residence and
office of the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom, it is situated on Downing Street in
the City of Westminster in London

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Big Ben ●
St Paul's Cathedral
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The Clock Tower is the world's biggest four-
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St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the
faced, chiming clock. The structure is City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London.
situated at the north-eastern end of the The cathedral is one of London's most visited sites
Houses of Parliament
Reuters Building
Daily Express Building
Market
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Covent Garden
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Fleet Street
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Covent Garden is a district in London. The area is
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Fleet Street is a street in London named after the River
dominated by shopping, street performers and Fleet. It was the home of the British press until the 1980s.
entertainment facilities and contains an entrance to ●
The term Fleet Street is also used to indicate that a
the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, which is also
journalist is a member of the generation that worked on
widely known simply as quot;Covent Gardenquot; - an opera
newspapers prior to their move away from the area
house and major performing arts venue

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London University
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The Opera House
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A university based primarily in London. It is the largest
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The Royal Opera House is an opera house and
university in the United Kingdom by number of full time
major performing arts venue in the London
students
district of Covent Garden, one of the
foremost opera houses in the world. It is the ●
The University of London owns
home of the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet a considerable estate of 160
buildings centered on the
Bloomsbury district of central
London
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London Zoo ●
London Eye
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London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific ●
The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is
zoo and was originally intended to be used as the tallest (135 metres) Ferris wheel in Europe, and
a collection for scientific study. It was has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in
eventually made open to the public in 1847 the UK, visited by over 3 million people a year.

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The Bank of England
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Guildhall
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The Bank of England is the central bank of
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The Guildhall is a building in the City of the United Kingdom
London and has been used as a town hall for
several hundred years, and is still the
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It controls (i) the supply of money,
ceremonial and administrative centre of the (ii) availability of money, and (iii) cost of
City of London money or rate of interest, to attain the
growth and stability of the economy.
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The Gherkin
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30 St Mary Axe is a
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Lloyds Building skyscraper in London's
main financial district, the
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The Lloyd's Building is the home
City of London. It is widely
of the insurance institution
known by the nickname
Lloyd's of London, and is located
quot;The Gherkinquot;.
at One Lime Street, in the City
of London

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Kensington
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Mayfair ●
Kensington is a district of West London
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Mayfair is an area of ●
An affluent and densely-populated area, its
central London, within commercial heart is Kensington High Street
the City of Westminster
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There are many major
shopping streets such as
Bond Street, Regent
Street and Oxford
Street
Oxford Street Kensington High Street
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Soho
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Sloane Square
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Soho is an area in the centre of the West End of London, in
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Sloane Square is a small hard-landscaped the City of Westminster
square on the boundaries of the fashionable
London districts of Knightsbridge, Belgravia ●
It is an entertainment district which and has a reputation
and Chelsea for its night life and film industry

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The Barbican Complex in the City of London:
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Bloomsbury
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The Barbican Estate is a residential estate in
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Bloomsbury is an area of central London notable for its
the City of London, in an area densely packed array of gardened squares, its literary connections and
with commerce and finance its numerous hospitals and academic institutions
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The Barbican Centre is the largest
performing arts centre in Europe
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Islington Upper Street
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Holburn High Holburn
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Islington is an inner-city district in London
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Holborn is an area of Central London
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Upper Street is the main shopping street of
the Islington borough of inner north London
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In the modern era High Holborn has become a centre for
entertainment venues

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Fulham ●
The Strand
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Fulham is an area of south-west London in the ●
The Strand is a street in the City of
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Westminster which became popular in
Victorian times, but now has many prominent
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Having been through many transformations, today
buildings such as Australia House, Bush
it is a green London suburb within close reach of
House, King's College London and the Savoy
areas such as Chelsea and Kensington which is
Hotel
reflected in local house prices
Craven Cottage
Australia House
Bush House
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Piccadilly Circus
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Piccadilly Circus is a famous road junction and public
space of London's West End in the City of Westminster
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The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment
areas in a central location at the heart of the West End.
Its status as a major traffic intersection has made
Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting point and a tourist ●
Leicester Square
attraction in its own right
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Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West
End of London
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Leicester Square is the centre of London's cinema land and
is the prime location in London for major film premieres

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Trafalgar Square
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Regent Street
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Trafalgar Square is a square in central London. With its
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Regent Street is a major shopping street and
position in the heart of London, it is a popular tourist thoroughfare in London's West End, notable shops
attraction; its trademarks are Nelson's Column, which include Hamleys
stands in the centre, the four lion statues that guard
the Column, and the large number of pigeons that live in
the square
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Bond Street
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Knightsbridge
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Bond Street is also a major
shopping street in London,
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Knightsbridge is a famous London street
one of the principal streets and district, the district is notable as an
in the West End shopping expensive residential area, and for the
district and is more density of its upmarket retail outlets,
upmarket than nearby Regent famously Harrods and Harvey Nichols
Street and Oxford Street
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Knightsbridge is home to many of the
world's richest people. It has some of
the highest property prices in the world

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Oxford Street
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Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in
London in the City of Westminster. With over
300 shops, it is Europe's busiest shopping
street, as well as the most dense
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Oxford Street is home to major department
stores and numerous brands' flagship stores, as
well as hundreds of smaller shops. It is the
major shopping street in central London, though
not the most expensive or fashionable

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Tunnels Under the Thames
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Blackwall Tunnel
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Greenwich Foot Tunnel ●
The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels
underneath the River Thames in east London,
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The Greenwich foot tunnel is a pedestrian tunnel crossing
linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
beneath the River Thames in South East London, linking the
with the London Borough of Greenwich
London Borough of Greenwich in the south with the London
Borough of Tower Hamlets to the north ●
It is part of the A102 road

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Famous London Bridges
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London Bridge
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London Bridge is a bridge in
London, over the River Thames,
between the City of London
and Southwark
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Tower Bridge
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Tower Bridge is a combined movable bridge
and suspension bridge in London, England
over the River Thames
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It is close to the Tower of London, which
gives it its name. It has become an iconic
symbol of London
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Westminster Bridge
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Westminster Bridge is a road and foot
traffic bridge over the River Thames
between Westminster and Lambeth in
Greater London

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With increasing urbanisation of London, some of the
Royal Parks of London were preserved as freely ●
Royal London Parks
accessible open space and became public parks
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The open spaces of Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park,
Green Park and St. James's Park together form an
almost continuous quot;green lungquot; in the heart of
London between Kensington and Westminster.
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Hyde Park
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Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in
central London and is used for recreation,
concerts and has sites of interest
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Kensington Gardens
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Kensington Gardens, once the private
gardens of Kensington Palace, is one of the
Royal Parks of London, lying immediately to
the west of Hyde Park.
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Richmond Park
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Richmond Park is a 955 hectare urban park near central
London
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It is Britain's largest urban walled park, as well as the
largest of the Royal Parks in London. The park is also
famous for its Red and Fallow Deer

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Victoria Coach Station
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Victoria Bus Station
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Victoria Coach Station is the largest and
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Victoria Bus Station is the busiest in London
most significant coach station in London ●
The second busiest is the iconic Vauxhall
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It serves long distance coach services Station
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Victoria Bus Station
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Vauxhall Transport Interchange

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2 London Hospitals
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Royal London Hospital
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Great Ormond Street Hospital
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The Royal London provides district general
hospital services for the City and Tower ●
Great Ormond Street Hospital is thought to
Hamlets and specialist tertiary care services
be the first hospital providing in-patient
for patients from across London and
beds specifically for children in the English-
elsewhere
speaking world
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Planning permission was granted for a £1
billion redevelopment and expansion of The
Royal London Hospital. On completion of the
project, the hospital will have London’s
leading trauma and emergency care centre,
one of Europe’s largest renal services and
the capital’s second biggest paediatric
service.

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5 Main Railway Stations ●
Liverpool Street Station
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Based on Annual entry/exit
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City of London
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18 platforms in use, 50.5 million passengers
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London Bridge
Station
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Southwark
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London Waterloo Station ●
15 platforms in
use, 37 million
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London Borough of passengers
Lambeth
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19 platforms in
use, 62.4 million
passengers
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London Victoria Station ●
Charing Cross
Railway Station
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London Victoria is a major
London Underground, ●
Westminster
National Rail and Coach
station in the City of ●
6 platforms in use,
Westminster 28.8 million
passengers
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19 platforms in use, 48
million passengers

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3 Museums In The City
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Museum of London
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There are over 240 museums in London, England,
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The Museum of London documents a number of them in 'Museum Mile' - a nickname
the history of London from the for the area centered around South Kensington,
Prehistoric to the present day. London, England, between Cromwell Road and
Kensington Gore, which contains a large number
of educational and cultural sites
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London Transport Museum
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The London Transport Museum, in Covent
Garden, London, seeks to conserve and
explain the transport heritage of Britain's
capital city
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Tate Modern
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The Tate Modern in London is Britain's
national museum of international modern art
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London Underground Zone 1

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3 Underground Lines in the CBD
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London effectively has two city centres, the City
of London and the medieval City of Westminster
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The shape and type of a CBD or downtown almost
always closely reflect the city's history
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Circle line (London Underground) ●
Bakerloo line
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Colour on map Yellow ●
Colour on map Brown
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The Cirle Line forms a loop line around the ●
Runs partly on the surface and partly at deep
centre of London on the north side of the level, from the south-east to the north-west
River Thames of London
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8th busiest line on the network ●
7th busiest line on the network
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Jubilee line
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Colour on map Grey
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It was built in two major sections - initially
to Charing Cross in Central London, and later
extended to Stratford in East London

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Tower of London
LONDON DOCKLANDS
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One Canada Square
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Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress,
more commonly known as the Tower of ●
One Canada Square (also known as the Canary
London is a historic monument in central Wharf Tower) is a skyscraper in Canary
London on the north bank of the River Wharf, London. It is the tallest building in
Thames. England and the United Kingdom at 235.1
metres above ground
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Wapping
The studios were the home
for the first nine series of
Spitting Image from 1984 to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping#Dockland_area
1989 and the first series of
Whose Line Is It Anyway? in
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Limehouse Studios 1989. 
Wapping is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Limehouse Studios was an independently- 
Wapping was devastated by German bombing in World War II and by
owned television studio complex built in the
the post-war closure of the docks. It remained a run-down and
South Quay Import Dock. This was located
at the eastern end of Canary Wharf, opened derelict area into the 1980s
in 1983. The building was demolished just six
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Printing plant was nicknamed quot;Fortress Wappingquot; when sacked print
years later, in 1989, to make way for the
massive development of Canary Wharf which workers besieged it, with round-the-clock pickets and blockades in
now occupies the site. an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to prevent the move

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London Arena
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The London Dockland Arena was an indoor ●
Butler's Wharf
arena and exhibition centre on the Isle of
Dogs in London ●
Butler's Wharf is an area on the
south bank of the river Thames just
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The London Arena was demolished in June east of London's Tower Bridge
2006 and is set to be replaced by a mainly
residential development. ●
The main thoroughfare through the
area is the historic and picturesque
street Shad Thames
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St Katherine's Docks 
Beckton
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St Katharine's Docks, in the London
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Beckton is a place in the London Borough of Newham
Borough of Tower Hamlets, were one of
the commercial docks serving
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Situated north and east of the Royal Docks, the area was
London, on the north side of
the river Thames just east formerly heavily industrialised, and was the location of
(downstream) of the Tower Beckton Gas Works
of London and Tower Bridge.
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In more recent times, industry has left the area, leaving huge
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They were part of the Port areas of brownfield land, and Beckton has been redeveloped as
of London, in the area now known as the
part of the Docklands project. It now comprises mainly
Docklands, and are now a popular housing
housing and several out-of-town shopping centres
and leisure complex

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Silvertown
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City Airport
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Silvertown is an industrialised district in the London
Borough of Newham dominated by the Tate & Lyle sugar
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London City Airport is a single-runway
refinery airport, principally serving the
financial districts of London. It is
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The area has been transformed since the 1970s by the located on a former Docklands site, in
construction of the Thames Barrier, an adjacent park, new the London Borough of Newham in
housing areas and the London City Airport East London
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Heron Quays
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Heron Quays forms part of the Canary Wharf area the Docklands, East
London. Three skyscrapers dominate the area: 25 Bank Street, 40
Bank Street and 10 Upper Bank Street. 
Isle of Dogs
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The Isle of Dogs is a former island in the East End of London
that is surrounded on three sides (east, south and west) by one
of the largest meanders in the River Thames.
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It was the site of the highest concentration of council housing
in England, but is now best known as the location of the
prestigious Canary Wharf office complex

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Docklands Light Railway
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The Docklands Light Railway is a light rail
system serving the redeveloped Docklands
area of East London. It opened on August 31,
1987. DLR track and trains are not
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Poplar
compatible with those of London
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Poplar is an area of the East End of London Underground, but the DLR is shown on the
in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets London Underground Tube map.
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During the development of the Isle of Dogs
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The trains are computer-controlled and
the street signs pointed to the new normally have no driver
development (by the London Docklands
Development Corporation), and Poplar was
lost for a decade or more
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Canary Wharf contains the
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Canary Wharf
UK's three tallest buildings
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Canary Wharf is a large business and shopping development
in London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,
centred on the old West India Docks in the London
Docklands
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Canary Wharf is built on the site of the old West India
Docks on the Isle of Dogs. From 1802 to 1980, the area was
one of the busiest docks in the world
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During WWII, the docks area was bombed heavily and nearly
all the original warehouses were destroyed or badly damaged.
The port industry began to decline

24. ● The Millennium Dome (Now the The O2 Arena)
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Rotherhithe – Southwark
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The Millennium Dome, is the original name of a large dome-
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Rotherhithe is a district of central south-east
shaped building, originally used to house the Millennium
London in the London Borough of Southwark. It is Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of
located on a peninsula on the south bank of the the third millennium. The project and exhibition was the
Thames, facing Wapping and the Isle of Dogs on the subject of considerable political controversy as it failed to
north bank, and is a part of the Docklands area attract the number of visitors anticipated, leading to
recurring financial problems
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Because much of the former Surrey Docks had
● The O2 arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located at the
strong trade links to Scandinavia and the Baltic
centre of The O2, a large entertainment complex on the
region the area is still home to a thriving
Greenwich peninsula in south-east London
Scandinavian community - Rotherhithe is home to a
Norwegian, a Finnish and a Swedish church.

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Wimbledon SUBURBS
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Northwood
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Wimbledon is a suburb of London, part of the
London Borough of Merton ●
Northwood is a suburb of London in the
London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Wimbledon's attraction remains its combination of
convenient access to central London with the ●
Northwood is the home to Northwood
benefit of plentiful recreational facilities. Strong Headquarters, which is the location of the
demand for homes, especially the larger properties British Armed Forces Permanent Joint
in the Wimbledon Village and Wimbledon Park areas, Headquarters for planning and controlling
has seen prices increase to amongst the highest in overseas military operations.
the outer London area
Northwood: High Street
Harrow
Harrow is a town in the London
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Hendon
Borough of Harrow, North West
London 
Hendon is a London suburban development
Harrow features a moderately large 
Hendon’s claim to fame is in flying and
shopping area in the town centre. Hendon Aerodrome is now the RAF Museum.

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Enfield
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Golders Green
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The London Borough of Enfield
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Golders Green is an area in the London
is the most northerly London
Borough of Barnet in London, England.
borough and forms part of Outer
Although having some earlier existence, it is
London
essentially a 19th-century suburban
development ●
Enfield used to be a small market town on the edge of the
forest about a day's travel north of London. As Greater London
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Golders Green also has a sizeable Japanese,
has grown, Enfield has become a residential suburb, with fast
Polish and Korean population
transport links into central London.
Borehamwood
Borehamwood is a town in southern Hertfordshire,
situated 16 miles north of London. It is part of the
borough of Hertsmere within the London commuter
belt
Dartford
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Dartford
Dartford is the principal town in the borough of
Dartford. It is situated in the northwest corner of
Kent, England, 16 miles east south-east of central
London.

27. COMMUTER SETTLEMENTS OUTSIDE THE M25

28. AIRPORTS
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Heathrow
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Stansted
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London Heathrow Airport is the principal and
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London Stansted Airport is a passenger airport located
biggest airport serving the United Kingdom in Essex about 30 miles north-east of London
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Heathrow is the world's third busiest airport
for passenger traffic
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Gatwick
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Gatwick Airport is London's
second largest airport and
the second busiest airport in
the United Kingdom
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This year Gatwick celebrates
50 years of operations
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City Airport
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London City Airport
is a single-runway
airport, intended for
principally serving the
financial districts of
London

29. NEW TOWNS
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Croydon
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St Albans
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Croydon is a large town and major
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St Albans is the main urban area of the City
commercial centre in South London, and the and District of St Albans in southern
principal settlement of the London Borough Hertfordshire around 22 miles north of
of Croydon. central London
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Population 64,038
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Hemel Hempstead
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Hemel Hempstead is a town in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
with a population of 81,143 at the United Kingdom Census 2001
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On 11 December 2005 it was brought into the news
by the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire.
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Hatfield
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Hatfield, originally Bishop's
Hatfield, is in Hertfordshire,
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Harlow
in the south of England ●
Harlow is a new town in Essex, England. It is located in the
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Population 27,883 west of the county and on the border with Hertfordshire
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The town is near the M11 motorway and forms part of the
London commuter belt

30. MAP OF LONDON SHOWING MAIN ROADS
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31. M25
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The M25 motorway is a 117 mile (188 km)
orbitaL bypass motorway which encircles the
city of London, United Kingdom. It is one of
the busiest stretches of the British
motorway network, and almost completely
encircles London