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Whitecross Place. Whitecross Street – after a former white cross which stood near here in the 1200s [107] [573] Whitefriars Street – after the Carmelite order (known as the White friars), who were granted land here by Edward I [107] [573] White Hart Court – after a former inn of this name [107] [574] White Hart Street.
List of areas of London. London is the capital of and largest city in England and the United Kingdom. It is divided into the City of London and 32 London boroughs, the result of amalgamation of earlier units of administration that can be traced back to ancient parishes. Each borough is made up of many smaller areas that are variously called ...
North London and South London: the division of London by the River Thames; West End of London, Central London, East End of London and the South Bank: sections of the historic urban core; London Docklands: the former docks and now a regeneration area; London Plan sub-regions: North East, North, South East, South West, West
221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. Baker Street in the late 19th century was a high-class residential ...
Listings and availability. There are approximately 1.7 million postcodes in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. [70] Each postcode is divided by a space into two parts. As mentioned above, the first part starts with the postcode area and ends with the postcode district.
The BF postcode area was introduced in 2012 to provide optional postcodes for British Forces Post Office addresses, for consistency with the layout of other UK addresses. It uses the national non-geographic post town "BFPO" and, as of 2012, the postcode district "BF1". Each BFPO number is assigned an inward code, which are gouped as: 0 ...
Ebury Publishing. Ebury Publishing is a division of Penguin Random House, and is a publisher of general non-fiction books in the UK. Ebury was founded in 1961 as a division of Nat Mags and was originally located on Ebury Street in London. It was sold to Century Hutchinson in 1989; Century Hutchinson was acquired by Random House.
London. / 51.50722°N 0.12750°W / 51.50722; -0.12750. London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of around 8.8 million, [1] and its metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million.