Discover... London

The reason central London is so very exciting for historians is that so much has happened here over such a long period of time.

London was founded in what is now the financial district, the Square Mile, after the Roman invasion of 43 AD. It was abandoned during part of the Dark Ages, when there was a Saxon port further along the river near where the West End is today, then reoccupied during the reign of Alfred the Great in the 9th century.

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