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class="cap">When        City as the site of their bridge.
you next come to London,         The Romans chose their site
consider booking a London             well. The river was the key to
Limousine for a tour of London        London's strategic importance and
and ponder on it’s 2,000 year         it would remain so through the
long history.                         centuries.

Did London begin in Creffield

Roman London, the Celtic
Road?

"Llyn-din", the fort by the lake,

During the Stone Age, this now     quickly took shape, but suffered
undistinguished street in the         a setback 17 years later when
West London suburb of Acton was       British guerrillas under Queen
home and workshop to prehistoric      Boadicea attacked and burned
flint workers. They left 600          areas around Lombard Street,
worked flints, and discovery is       Gracechurch Street and
one of the few on which our           Walbrook.

knowledge of pre-Roman London is

A rebuilt Londinium, as the
based.

Romans called it, had by AD 100

Together with the scant            supplanted Colchester as the
evidence of a hand-axe from           capital and military and trading
Piccadilly Circus, the Acton          centre of Britain. It had a
locations are sites on an             timber-built bridge, quays,
archaeologist's map through which     warehouses and domestic
an ancient river flowed and           buildings. Wattle and daub were
created gravel banks in the clay      faced with plaster; Kentish
basin on its way to the North         ragstone was brought by boat for
Sea.

public buildings and the

Not until AD 43 does the story     necessary defensive wall
of London really begin, when the      constructed to resist raids by
invading Roman army chose gravel      Saxons from the Continent.

Roads radiated to Colchester, Guildhall is thought to
York, Chester, Exeter, Bath and perpetuate.

Canterbury. Subsequently by AD

Two miles (3 km) up river on
288 the settlement's importance       Thorney Island, the Monastery of
had been recognised by Rome. It       St Peter, later the great
was given the proud name Augusta,     Westminster, had been
but that pride went before a          established. Following his
fall.

accession in 1042, Edward the

In 410, threatened by the          Confessor moved his court from
Germanic races from the north,        the City to Westminster, thereby
Rome had no alternative but to        creating the division of royal
recall its garrison from England.     and mercantile power which had a
Culture withered and the very         profound effect on the character
fabric of Londinium crumbled.

and growth of London.

Under the Saxons, it recovered

Edward, in lieu of his
its importance. And in the early      pilgrimage to Rome, set about
8th century the literary monk,        rebuilding the Abbey, where
the Venerable Bede, called it the     succeeding kings were crowned,
"Market of the World" and south       married and, until George III
of the original wooden London         (d.1820),
Bridge, the Borough came to           buried.

independent existence.

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