City of London
The City of London is where, around 2,000 years ago, the Romans founded their settlement. Surrounded by a wall for centuries, this was the historic city which grew into modern London, and the place marked by fire and plague.
Known as the Square Mile, the City of London has by far the lowest population of all 33 London boroughs, at around 8,000 people. But as a financial centre, home to banks, insurers and law firms, in the daytime that number swells to over 500,000.
An estimated 10 million visitors come each year to see sites like the St Paul’s Cathedral, the Bank of England, the Barbican Centre and, from 2026, London Museum.
There’s history around every corner here. Fleet Street is no longer the home of London’s newspapers. But reporters still gather around the Old Bailey, the City’s historic criminal court.
The Barbican estate is an icon of Brutalist architecture in the City of London.
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A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market taken from the Bear and Ragged Staff (coloured aquatint)
Rowlandson, Thomas, Pugin, Auguste Charles, Bluck, J., Ackermann, Rudolph
1811-01-01
A Christmas poultry and game display at Leadenhall Market (negative)
Grant, Henry
1953-12
A City Pageant with an approved method of riding a restive horse without danger (ink and wash drawing)
Nixon, John
1802
A Copy of Verses, Humbly Presented to all my Worthy Masters and Mistresses of King-square Ward, East, Parish of St. Anne, Westminster (woodcut)
Gosling, W., Reynell, C.H.
1819
A Frost Fair on the Thames at Temple Stairs (oil on canvas)
Hondius, Abraham
1684
A General View of London and Westminster (engraving)
Buck Brothers, Buck, Nathaniel, Buck, Samuel, Bennett, John, Sayer, Robert
1777
A gentleman watching the Annual Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London (pigment print)
Baldesare, Paul
2008
A liftman at Price, Waterhouse & Co's office building, Old Jewry (silver gelatin print)
Eastcott, John
1974
