London, City of

London, City of

 municipal corporation and borough, London. Sometimes called the “Square Mile,” it is one of the 33 boroughs that make up Greater London.

      The borough lies on the north bank of the River Thames (Thames, River) between the Temple Bar memorial pillar (commemorating the old Temple Bar gate) and the base of Tower Hill. The City Corporation is Britain's oldest local government; it has the status of a county, with powers that exceed those of London's 32 other boroughs (collectively called Greater London), notably the control of its own police force. “The City,” as it is known, is only a component, relatively small in area, of the larger urban area known as London. Its area corresponds closely to that of the medieval city from which modern London has grown. The City belongs geographically to the historic county of Middlesex, but its special status and privileges gave it autonomy from that county for most of its history.

   Near the City's centre stand the Bank of England (England, Bank of), the Royal Exchange (now housing luxury shops and a restaurant), the Stock Exchange (London Stock Exchange), and the rest of London's financial district. Also in the City are St. Paul's Cathedral (Saint Paul's Cathedral), the Guildhall, Mansion House (the residence of the lord mayor), the Barbican arts complex and residential area, the main branch of the Museum of London, and the College of Arms. West of St. Paul's is Fleet Street, once the hub of London's newspaper establishment. The Temple (Temple, The) and the Royal Courts of Justice, constituting the heart of the legal profession, are on the boundary with Westminster (Westminster, City of). Within its area the City maintains small open spaces, but from the 1870s it has acquired green areas in other London boroughs and in Kent, Surrey, and Buckinghamshire for public use and for protection from development. London's Millennium Bridge (opened 2000; retrofitted and reopened 2002) links the City to the borough of Southwark; it was the first new bridge to span the Thames for more than a century.

      Hundreds of thousands of workers and tens of thousands of other visitors commute daily to the City via highway, bus, the Underground (subway), or train stations at Blackfriars and at Liverpool, Fenchurch, and Cannon streets. Because of migration to other areas of London and to the suburbs, the resident population of the Square Mile decreased markedly after 1851, when 127,869 persons were counted, to 26,923 in 1901 and 5,234 in 1951. Thereafter the population remained somewhat stable until the 1990s, when it began to grow. Area 1.1 square miles (2.9 square km). Pop. (2001) 7,185.

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