Author: Clint Curtis

In just 1.12 square miles, the City of London counts around 8,000 residents, 513,000 daily commuters and 10m annual visitors. The City of London boundaries stretch from Temple to the Tower of London, on the River Thames including, from west to east Chancery Lane and Liverpool Street. Are there towns inside London? However, London is […]

Chester Zoo Located in Upton, just over a mile north of Chester city center, Chester Zoo is England’s most visited attraction outside of London and is one of the best places to visit in England for families. What is the number 1 tourist attraction in the UK? 1. Tower of London. The top spot goes […]

The Tower remains a working fortress today, with a strong military presence. You will see soldiers guarding the Jewel House and King’s House, as well as the famous Yeoman Warders (or ‘Beefeaters’) who have been guarding the Tower for 500 years. What is the Tower of London used for now? The Tower of London is […]

While the visitor volume to that tourist attraction totaled nearly three million in 2019, it dropped sharply to 448 thousand in 2020, before rising to 526 thousand in 2021. Number of visits to the Tower of London in England from 2010 to 2021 (in 1,000s) Characteristic Number of visits in thousands – – How many […]

The very first zoo in London From the 1200s to 1835, the Tower housed a menagerie of exotic wild animals, never before seen in London, including lions and a polar bear given as royal gifts. What creatures live in the Tower of London? Explore the tales of the many exotic animals kept at the Tower, […]

London Zoo The enclosure covers more than 2,500 square metres and is home to four lions. Are lions in London? The most famous lions in London, possibly the world, are the Trafalgar Square lions, which are the subject of thousands of tourist photos every day. They’re also known as the Landseer lions after the sculptor, […]

Londinium was established as a civilian town by the Romans about four years after the invasion of AD 43. London, like Rome, was founded on the point of the river where it was narrow enough to bridge and the strategic location of the city provided easy access to much of Europe. Who first settled in […]

By 1592, aged 28, Shakespeare was in London and already established as both an actor and a dramatist. He is first mentioned as a man of the theatre by the poet and dramatist Robert Greene, in Greenes, Groats-Worth of Witte published that year. When did Shakespeare develop his career in London? Sometime between 1585 and […]

Shakespeare’s London was home to a cross-section of early modern English culture. Its populace of roughly 100,000 people included royalty, nobility, merchants, artisans, laborers, actors, beggars, thieves, and spies, as well as refugees from political and religious persecution on the continent. What was it like to live in Shakespeare’s London? “London was a violent place […]