City of London
The City of London is where, around 2,000 years ago, the Romans founded the settlement they called Londinium. 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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View from St. Paul's towards Paternoster Row (silver gelatin print)
Cross, Arthur, Tibbs, Fred
C. 1941
View from the Golden Gallery towards Newgate (silver gelatin print)
Cross, Arthur, Tibbs, Fred
1942
View from the roof garden of 30 Holborn (watercolour)
Jackson, Sheila
1945
View of London from Albion Place (watercolour)
Barrow, Joseph Charles
1798
View of London from Greenwich (ink and wash drawing)
Glover, John
1785-1795
View of the Iron Bridge intended to be erected on the Thames from Southwark (watercolour)
Blunt
C. 1814
View on the Thames, with St Paul's (watercolour)
Scott, Samuel
1742-1765
Visit of the Officers of The French Fleet to The City of London (menu)
Blades, East & Blades
1905-08-10
Visit to the Zoological Gardens (children's book)
Dean and Munday, A.K. Newman and Company, Pickering, George, Bishop, James
C. 1835
