please empty your brain below
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Ranking by average house price?
Dan | 20.07.23 - 7:06 a.m. | #
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Ranked boroughs by distance from Charing Cross
TomH | 20.07.23 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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A playstation for synesthetes!
cau1khead | 20.07.23 - 7:19 a.m. | #
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Arrondissements de Londres à la manière de Paris
Richard | 20.07.23 - 7:30 a.m. | #
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Ranking of boroughs by proportion voting to remain in the EU
Vee Jay Em | 20.07.23 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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As TomH notes, generally the higher the number the further out the borough.
Betterbee | 20.07.23 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Branches of McDonalds/Subway/Greggs/Poundland?
r | 20.07.23 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Up until 8am only the 1-33 map was shown.
(and it was dotless)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 20.07.23 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Fascinating stuff. I wonder how the rankings would change if the measurements were taken from the furthest point in the borough. No doubt Havering would still come in last.
dg writes: The last three would be Bromley, Hillingdon, Havering.
Alan S | 20.07.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Well I think this calls for a Creme Egg
TomH | 20.07.23 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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AlanS, would that also mean City of London ranks first? Westminster may even be third given how short Islington is.
dg writes: see 'n.b.' under City of London.
Westminster would be second.
TomH | 20.07.23 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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"London would be a lot more circular if you got rid of Hillingdon and Havering."
The Kingston arm would look a bit less silly if we picked up Epsom & Ewell as originally planned.
Chz | 20.07.23 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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That last map is quite interesting, and makes me wonder what Greater London would have looked like if they took the approach the colonialists did when partitioning land into countries, and just drew a round or square boundary around the edge.
Mikey C | 20.07.23 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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And that’s why some people in Havering still regard themselves as living in Essex.
Dave B | 20.07.23 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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✉ I too have just unwrapped my Creme Egg.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 20.07.23 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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As a Hillingdon resident I'd been thinking how we do seem to feel somewhat left out. The Mayor for instance will announce some benefits for "west London" that turn out to be in Hammersmith, or possibly as far out as Ealing.
I get to vote today, but it does all feel rather meaningless. Whoever wins won't affect the parliamentary majority, and for all the talk of "sending a message", each party will manage to explain away the result and carry on much as before. Count Binface (as he points out, the only surviving candidate from the general election) may have a point, though I don't think I can quite bring myself to vote for him!
Andrew S | 20.07.23 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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"28 miles top-to-bottom".
Grrr. Only top to bottom on today's map convention, which has been around for just a few hundred years.
If you measure London from top to bottom, the deepest tube tunnel below sea level is the Jubilee line at London Bridge, 23.2m below sea level.
The Shard, right next door, is 306m high, but the ground is 3m above sea level. So 306 + 3 + 23.2m = 332.2m
Which means London, top to bottom, is 332.2m
AlanBG | 20.07.23 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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Does the ranking change much if one uses the geometric centre of Greater London? Which IIRC was calculated to be near Lambeth North, somewhere on the Frazier St estate.
Mark | 20.07.23 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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I always find it strange that the postal address Number 1 London is some distance from Charing Cross at Hyde Park Corner.
ap | 20.07.23 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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It's that Chessington salient that traumatises me. I want to pinch it off like the battle of Kursk.
M | 20.07.23 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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Interesting stuff. I thought my borough (Harrow) would have a lower number and a higher minimum distance!
How far from NW to SE, and SW to NE?
Cornish Cockney | 20.07.23 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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Hiving off Havering and Hillingdon would almost be worth it for the utter indignation of our friends in Bromley and Bexley at being kept in.
heath-rennf | 20.07.23 - 12:39 p.m. | #
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Regarding the Kingston 'arm', I recall an episode of Any Questions featuring Ed Davey, when an agricultural topic came up. The host expressed surprise when Davey referred to farms in his constituency, which were of course those in the Malden Rushett area.
Maldenite | 20.07.23 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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There is a traditional folk song from the period about the casting down of the Eleanor Cross called "The Lawyer's Lamentation for the Loss of Charing Cross".
(The tune is also associated with other Royalist purposes e.g. the dance "Prince Rupert's March" edition 1 published 1652 of Playford's Dancing master has the melody line)
MilesT | 20.07.23 - 12:56 p.m. | #
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The milestones on the Epping/Newmarket [old A11] turnpikes were measured from Shoreditch Church, just to be different - and still are!
Crispy | 20.07.23 - 1:30 p.m. | #
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Uxbridge has the tube. I think if you have the tube you feel fairly London. Even when I lived just outside in Hertfordshire the tube connection made me feel part of London.
Wheels | 20.07.23 - 4:28 p.m. | #
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Wheels - I grew up in Upminster, and I think we felt the same about the tube. Although - going into London on it is a very drawn-out process (not that we ever did when I was young - Romford was the metropolis!).
mark addy | 20.07.23 - 9:48 p.m. | #
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It’s No. 1 London on the way in, not on the way out.
Bryn Davies | 20.07.23 - 10:31 p.m. | #
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It’s very subjective but I do think that Chingford (10.5 miles from Charing X) is the most central place where London ends and countryside begins.
Dan | 21.07.23 - 6:58 a.m. | #
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AlanBG: I saw a YouTube video that pointed out that the Crystal Palace Transmitter is actually the tallest (most top?) point in London at a lower height of 219m but being positioned at 109m above sea level.
And an internet search suggests that the Waterloo Jubilee platforms are deeper at 26m, which makes London "top-to-bottom" as at least 219+109+26=354m (before someone else corrects me).
Adrian | 23.07.23 - 9:04 p.m. | #
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