Attractive Places In The City Of London
The City of London is a little area within Greater London, England. It is the momentous core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s borders have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of the metropolis of London. It is frequently referred to as the City or the Square Mile, as it is just over one square mile (1.12 mile²/2.9km²) in area. These conditions are also often used as metonymies for the United Kingdom’s financial services industry, which has historically been based here.
In the period of medieval, the City was the full extent of London. The phrase London now refers to a much larger conurbation roughly corresponding to Greater London, a local government area which includes 32 London boroughs as well as the City of London, which is not one of the 32 London boroughs. The home authority for the City, the City of London Corporation, is unique in the United Kingdom, and has some unusual responsibilities for a local authority in Britain, such as being the police authority for the City. It also has responsibilities and ownerships ahead of the City’s boundaries. The Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, a split (and much older) office to the Mayor of London.
The City is today a most important business and financial centre, ranking on a par with New York City as the leading centre of global finance accessible to all through cheap airline tickets. In the 19th century, the City served as the world’s primary business centre. The City has a local population of approximately 8,000, but around 340,000 people work there, mainly in the financial services sector. The legal profession form a most important component of the western side of the City, in and around the Inns of Court, of which two - the Inner and Middle Temples - fall within the City of London boundary.
Gardens are maintained by the Corporation inside the City. These varieties from formal gardens such as the one in Fins bury Circus, containing a bowling green and bandstand, to churchyards such as one belonging to the church of St Olave Hart Street, entered from Seething Lane. Gardens included here are Barber-Surgeon’s Hall Garden - London Wall, Cleary Garden - Queen Victoria Street, Fins bury Circus - Blomfield Street or London Wall or Moorgate, Jubilee Garden - Hounds ditch, Portsoken Street Garden - Portsoken Street or Goodman’s Yard, Postman’s Park - Alders gate or King Edward Street, Seething Lane Garden - Seething Lane, St Dunstan-in-the-East - St Dunstan’s Hill or Idol Lane, St Mary Aldermanbury - Aldermanbury, the churchyard of St Olave Hart Street - Seething Lane, St Paul’s Churchyard - St Paul’s Cathedral, West Smithfield Garden - West Smithfield, Whittington Gardens - College Street or Upper Thames Street. One of the extra unusual hotels was the Unborn Yacht, a floating hotel by the Excel centre in East London and constructed specifically for that purpose (it had no engine).