London Places

Getting Londoners across the Thames since the 1300s

Royal ceremonies, human heads – and a brief spell in Hertfordshire

Palaces, ponds and plenty of plants

Portraits of the barren underbelly of London’s bridges, wharfs and piers

A list of the most notorious and historic prisons in the city

London’s Norman fortress that morphed into a Tudor palace

A grand Victorian terminus turned spacious 1960s rectangle

Highwaymen hangouts, Thameside landmarks – and a local co-owned by Ian McKellen

The prize catch of London’s fish trade, home to a unique culture and generations of working history

Trade, tunnels – and a very big explosion

This ornate Victorian viaduct connects Holborn with the City of London

Borough Market has drawn food enthusiasts to its stalls for around a thousand years

London’s buildings were this artist’s speciality in the 1800s, letting us see landmarks lost to time

Where else could you find pie and mash, biriani, Suffragette history and a grime music landmark?

The birthplace of Tudor monarchs and Greenwich Mean Time

One of London's most remarkable historical landscapes can be found in the south-west suburbs

The park surrounded by palaces – and home to a colony of pelicans

A former fruit and veg trading hub in the heart of the East End