About London

The City of London
 

the City of London, a city and county with a jurisdiction independent of the greater London metropolis

 

Extent of the Metropolis of London
 

1701 (Robert Morden

1720 (John Strype)

1724–26 (Daniel Defoe)

1750 (John Noorthouck)

1831 (Samuel Lewis)

 

Descriptions of London
 

from The New Description and State of England, Containing the Mapps of the Counties of England and Wales, in Fifty three Copper-plates, Newly Design’d, by Robert Morden (1701)

 

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster Book II, by John Strype (1720)

 

from A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, by Daniel Defoe (1724–26), introduction and selections by Pat Rogers

 

from A Topographical Dictionary of England vol. III, by Samuel Lewis (1831)