The London Wall is a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in c. AD 200, as well as the name...
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125 London Wall, also known as Alban Gate, is a postmodernist building on London Wall in the City of London. Along with Embankment Place and Vauxhall...
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Romans built the London Wall some time between AD 190 and 225. The boundaries of the Roman city were similar to those of the City of London today, though...
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the 2nd century, Roman London had a population of about 60,000. With the early 5th-century collapse of Roman rule, the walled city of Londinium was effectively...
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St Alphege or St Alphage London Wall was a church in Bassishaw Ward in the City of London, built directly upon London Wall. It was also known as St Alphege...
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Londinium (redirect from Roman London)
northern wall reached Bishopsgate and Cripplegate near the former site of the Museum of London, a course now marked by the street "London Wall". Cemeteries...
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of London lasted from the 7th to the 11th centuries. Romano-British Londinium had been abandoned in the late 5th century, although the London Wall remained...
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walls across Europe, drawing on Eastern influences. At the Tower of London, Edward filled in the moat dug by Henry III and built a new curtain wall along...
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London Wall is a play by the British writer John Van Druten that was first staged in 1931. It based on the romantic entanglements of the staff at a firm...
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Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the...
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Newgate (redirect from Newgate Street, London)
gates of the London Wall around the City of London and one of the six which date back to Roman times. Newgate lay on the west side of the wall and the road...
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1826) and that of the London Museum (founded in 1911). From 1976 to 2022, its main site was in the City of London on London Wall, close to the Barbican...
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Fleet Street (redirect from Fleet Street, London)
Cities of London and Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was named. The street has been...
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Hallows-on-the-Wall is a Church of England church located in the City of London. Its name refers to its location, inside and adjacent to London Wall, the former...
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Tower Hill (redirect from Tower Hill (London))
are outside the Tower of London and its moat. Great Tower Hill is the land lying inside (or west) of the line of the London Wall whereas Little Tower Hill...
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The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imaginary wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through...
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Alex Honnold (redirect from Alone on the Wall)
for a more equitable world". Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure. London: Pan, 2015. Co-authored with David Roberts...
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The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records. It is...
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The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered...
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other important sites in the city of London including the historic London Stone, the Bank of England and London Wall. The original Mithraeum was built partly...
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WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American animated romantic science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt...
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Holborn (redirect from Holborn, London, England)
Holborn which extend west from the site of the former Newgate in the London Wall, over the Fleet, through Holborn and towards Westminster. The district...
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Ages, it was a broad grassy area known as Smooth Field, located beyond London Wall stretching to the eastern bank of the River Fleet. Given its ease of...
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The Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series...
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Westfield London is a large shopping centre in White City, west London, England, developed by the Westfield Group at a cost of £1.6bn, on a brownfield...
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The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major...
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(/ˈmæl/) is a ceremonial route and roadway in the City of Westminster, central London, that travels 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) between Buckingham Palace at its western...
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The London Coliseum (also known as the Coliseum Theatre) is a theatre in St Martin's Lane, Westminster, built as one of London's largest and most luxurious...
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St Martin-in-the-Fields (redirect from St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London)
period. This location, at that time, was farmlands and fields beyond the London wall. It became a principal parish church west of the old City in the early...
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Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of a pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, that were moved from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria...
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