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Where is London's most central sheep?

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Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by defrost »

walrus01 wrote: post #8

Looking at the satellite view of some grassy rooftops in the city of London (the square mile), it seems to me that a sufficiently motivated wealthy person could keep several sheep in a more central location. Some of those roofs look like they have more habitat space than the most central sheep lives in.

There are literal multi floor spacious underground bunkers in London beneath some of the more exclusive and expensive properties.

A good many are known by filed dimensions, some are suspected to be larger than declared.

While a number may be urban bunkers, others ostentatious wealth displays for shoes, clothes, jewels, and rare collectables of the very wealthy perhaps one is home to a rabbit .. or a sheep.

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Post by walrus01 »

defrost wrote: post #11
walrus01 wrote: post #8

Looking at the satellite view of some grassy rooftops in the city of London (the square mile), it seems to me that a sufficiently motivated wealthy person could keep several sheep in a more central location. Some of those roofs look like they have more habitat space than the most central sheep lives in.

There are literal multi floor spacious underground bunkers in London beneath some of the more exclusive and expensive properties. A good many are known by filed dimensions, some are suspected to be larger than declared. While a number may be urban bunkers, others ostentatious wealth displays for shoes, clothes, jewels, and rare collectables of the very wealthy perhaps one is home to a rabbit .. or a sheep.

For all we know, some wealthy sheep collector has sheep in a 3rd level sub basement in their London townhouse, strapped into an oculus headset and roaming around on a multi dimensional treadmill through endless grassy spring time fields.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by dghf »

walrus01 wrote: post #10
gadders wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20... .

As a non British person I would think the center of the city would be some point equidistant centrally between the boundaries of the original roman city wall, in the square mile, but the actual center of the city seems to have migrated since then.

> I would think the center of the city would be some point equidistant centrally between the boundaries of the original roman city wall

That would be the centre of the City, but not necessarily of the city.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by Pinus »

gadders wrote: post #7
walthamstow wrote: post #2

While Trafalgar is known as the official centre of London, you’d have trouble convincing anyone that Vauxhall is more central than Spitalfields.

It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20... .

Some years ago, I was looking for London hotels on some booking site, and noticed that they were listed as being so-and-so many km (with .1 or even .01 precision) from London, which seemed amusing given that they were all in London. So I fired up QGIS and drew a circle (in some suitable projection!) with the indicated radius around each hotel, and found that they intersected on Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by dghf »

defrost wrote: post #11
walrus01 wrote: post #8

Looking at the satellite view of some grassy rooftops in the city of London (the square mile), it seems to me that a sufficiently motivated wealthy person could keep several sheep in a more central location. Some of those roofs look like they have more habitat space than the most central sheep lives in.

There are literal multi floor spacious underground bunkers in London beneath some of the more exclusive and expensive properties. A good many are known by filed dimensions, some are suspected to be larger than declared. While a number may be urban bunkers, others ostentatious wealth displays for shoes, clothes, jewels, and rare collectables of the very wealthy perhaps one is home to a rabbit .. or a sheep.

> some are suspected to be larger than declared

I can't find a link now, but allegedly the Crossrail project accidentally tunnelled into one of these.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by cesaref »

gadders wrote: post #7
walthamstow wrote: post #2

While Trafalgar is known as the official centre of London, you’d have trouble convincing anyone that Vauxhall is more central than Spitalfields.

It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20... .

There's also the confusion as to whether people mean 'Greater London' or 'The City of London'. For the centre of the City, i've generally thought that Leadenhall Market is the centre, given it is built on the original Roman Forum.

For non-Londoners, the city was originally a walled city, and lies to the east end of what is now considered greater london. It's these days synonymous with the financial industry. There are special laws for it, honours like Freedom of the City, it's quite an interesting place.

Although the wall is long gone, there are place names which refer to it, and the gates which exited through it. So we have roads like 'London Wall' and locations like Bishopsgate, Aldgate etc. Newgate was added in the 12th century, so not exactly 'New' these days, so not a very future proof naming convention...

https://leadenhallmarket.co.uk/history-of-leadenhall-market/

https://inspiringcity.com/2013/04/13/the-seven-gates-of-lond...

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Post by nicoburns »

walrus01 wrote: post #10
gadders wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20... .

As a non British person I would think the center of the city would be some point equidistant centrally between the boundaries of the original roman city wall, in the square mile, but the actual center of the city seems to have migrated since then.

Modern London encompasses two historic settlements (the city of London, and westminster). What is now consider the centre is somewhere between the two.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by gadders »

cesaref wrote: post #17
gadders wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20... .

There's also the confusion as to whether people mean 'Greater London' or 'The City of London'. For the centre of the City, i've generally thought that Leadenhall Market is the centre, given it is built on the original Roman Forum. For non-Londoners, the city was originally a walled city, and lies to the east end of what is now considered greater london. It's these days synonymous with the financial industry. There ar…

>>Although the wall is long gone...

You can still see chunks of the wall: https://livinglondonhistory.com/londons-ancient-roman-and-me...

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