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Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by defrost »

emmelaich wrote: post #20
defrost wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the article: London's original wall was 2 miles long, 6 metres high and almost 3 metres thick at its base with a link to a graphic map and guide: https://colat.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/London-Wall-... that states it ran from the Tower of London to the Museum in the Barbican.

There is a London Wall Walk, starting at the Tower of London. Text copied from the plaques at the postern: (thanks Google Lens) > The London Wall Walk follows the original line of the City Wall for much of its length, from the royal fortress of the Tower of London to the Museum of London, situated in the modern high-rise development of the Barbican. Between these two landmarks the Wall Walk passes surviving pieces of…

> The Walk is 134 miles (2.8km)

Google Lens appears to have missed the point here.

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by EFreethought »

trenchpilgrim wrote: post #11

Note this is about the City of London, an entity much smaller and older than the modern city known as London. It's land area is about 3 km^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London Title should probably read "the City of London" rather than "London".

I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London".

Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by dboreham »

EFreethought wrote: post #22
trenchpilgrim wrote: post #11

Note this is about the City of London, an entity much smaller and older than the modern city known as London. It's land area is about 3 km^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London Title should probably read "the City of London" rather than "London".

I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London". Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".

See also: The Loop

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by dboreham »

feurio wrote: post #13
tom_alexander wrote: post #5

> ground level then was a few metres lower than now What?! That's huge. What happened?

Shoes. All the way down. ;-)

Takes me back. I don't think we have the number of shoe shops that used to dominate the high street and at the time I assumed inspired Adams.

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by wat10000 »

EFreethought wrote: post #22
trenchpilgrim wrote: post #11

Note this is about the City of London, an entity much smaller and older than the modern city known as London. It's land area is about 3 km^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London Title should probably read "the City of London" rather than "London".

I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London". Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".

New York is an obvious example of two entities of the same name, with the “City of” version being a small part of the larger version. It’s just on a much bigger scale.

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by onionisafruit »

wat10000 wrote: post #26
EFreethought wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London". Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".

New York is an obvious example of two entities of the same name, with the “City of” version being a small part of the larger version. It’s just on a much bigger scale.

New Orleans is a city, but City of New Orleans is a train

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by wat10000 »

onionisafruit wrote: post #27
wat10000 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

New York is an obvious example of two entities of the same name, with the “City of” version being a small part of the larger version. It’s just on a much bigger scale.

New Orleans is a city, but City of New Orleans is a train

And the other terminus is Chicago, thus bringing us full circle. Line. Loop. Whatever.

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by pmontra »

tom_alexander wrote: post #5

> ground level then was a few metres lower than now What?! That's huge. What happened?

If you leave ground alone all sort of things grow on it or lay on it. Dirt, mud, leaves etc. Soil grows at about 1 mm per year. 1 meter in 1000 years.

Historically cities were hit by floods and wars and new buildings were built on top of the foundations of old ones. We had an article about that church in Rome built over another roman church built over another roman church, etc. down to an old temple on a spring, or something like that.

Re: Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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Post by turbonaut »

EFreethought wrote: post #22
trenchpilgrim wrote: post #11

Note this is about the City of London, an entity much smaller and older than the modern city known as London. It's land area is about 3 km^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London Title should probably read "the City of London" rather than "London".

I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London". Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".

For further confusion, ‘London’ does not exist at all as a well defined entity and the UK has no de jure capital.
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