Greater London
This Metropolitan county was formed in 1974 and encompasses all of the area
previously considered to be Middlesex.
Middlesex itself gained it's name from 'The kingdom of the Middle Saxons'.
Greater London consists of the City of London and 32 Boroughs. The boroughs
are Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon,
Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey,
Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston
upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon
Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Wandsworth.
With a size of 610 square miles and a population of some 7 Million London is
the most densely populated of all British counties.
The metropolitan county was established in 1965 and was governed by the
Greater London Council until it's abolition in 1986.
The region contains so very many famous tourist attractions and places of
historical interest that it would be impractical to list them all but to
name a few include the Tower of London and Tower bridge, Buckingham Palace,
Covent Garden, Monument, Houses of Parliament and Soho
Greater London has become, over the centuries, a culturally enriched centre
of Great Britain, both from within the nation and from without and is a
perennial favourite for tourists from all over the world.
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