why London was built on its own site?
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The site of London has been inhabited since prehistoric times and developed for many reasons. The River Thames gave easy access to the sea and it provided a navigable way far up stream. It has a number of tributaries which in the past were also navigable. London developed at the first point where the Thames was relatively easy to cross. The river provided a constant water source and also gave a huge supply of fish. The flat marshy land around was full of wildfowl which were also used as food. Within easy distance were large forests which gave building material and fuel also open land which was perfect for grazing sheep. Land on the flood planes of the Thames is very fertile and so crops grow with ease. All in all an ideal place for a city to develop. I think that Winston Churchill summed it very well when he described the Thames as "That silver thread running through the history of England"
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In his lifetime London was the centre of the Universe.  It would have been necessary for him to remain close to sources of income and his public.
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LONDON..... London beats Paris by winning a dramatic vote to host the 2012 Olympic Games. see yah there...
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there is a very good underground system in london u.k, there are so many stations i imagine you could disappear for weeks dear.
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If you have it planned, then it can be pretty easy according to me to establish a town. You need a large portion of land and an army of architects and engineer, to make the place more adaptable for human occupation. You have to be aware of criticism from environmentalists and social workers also.
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Edinburgh castle want actualy built all at once.\n\nLike all grate castles it developed over Hundreds of years.\n\nThings are sketchy how it was first decided to be built on the Volcanic vent that it now sits but ver the years this has proved a good defensive stronghold.\n\nEach monarch has over time added and remoddled the castle to their own liking.
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Great news, especially considering the other world cities it was up against, like Paris, New York, Moscow, and Madrid. Those aren't exactly small hick towns! \n\nIt will completely regenerate an area in the east of the city which has been in need for nearly 50 years. The cost is definitely worth it.
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It's in London, England, which is in the UK.
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london is a big place\ndo you know if they are over 18 yrs?\nif so go to www.192.com\nthey maybe on the electoral register\nbut you need to know what town they are in\nas with most cities they are made up of towns \nfor instance chelsea,brixton,oval these are just some towns that make up london
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London was rebuilt after the fire of 1666.  Harvard University was established in 1636.
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Because Americans are stupid, they saw a bridge in London (Tower Bridge) and assumed it was called London Bridge and said hey we wanna buy London bridge and so they got it muahahahahahaha. They should've asked what the bridge they wanted was called.
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I am an American...was born and raised in Michigan....I am currently living in England about 45 min from London.  Its alright...it rains alot....but there is alot of history here and its really cool to see some of the old castles.  The Tower Of London is great but Stonehenge really wasn't that impressive.
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London is capital of england, so london does not have capital its a city
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London is 'the richest city on Earth' for some...but like any other cities in the UK, politics insist we must exclude the 'unsexy'. Sorry I'm not 'sharing'...but as the song goes - that's just the way it is.
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Because Greenwich is where the Royal Observatory is. a more bookish explantion is belwo:\nIn 1675 King Charles II appointed John Flamsteed as the first Astronomer Royal to provide astronomical data for use by the Royal Navy. The Kings astronomer needed an observatory and so one was built at Greenwich. When away from land, Sailors find their position by taking the baring of a star, but the stars move across the sky during the night (actually the earth turns beneath them). To get their position they need to know the exact position of the star, at the time they took the baring. This information is given in books called navigational tables. So it is very important that sailors know what the time is, but the mechanical clocks they had did not keep time, because of the motion of the ship. In 1761 a man called John Harrison won a competition by making a clock which was accurate to 1/5th of a second a day, even at sea. From now on sailors could reliably find their exact position while out at sea.\n\nAs time went by, travelling long distances became less dangerous, so people traveled more and trade routes developed. New inventions like the steam train (1815) and the telegraph (1831) improved communications and the fact that different places were using different times started to become a real problem. So in 1884 twenty-five different nations held a conference in Washington DC, to discuss what to do. They split the world up into time zones and twenty-two nations voted to use the local time at Greenwich as the base time for the rest of the world.
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It was settled because it was both on the river Kennet and at the crossroads of major North-South and East-West trade routes.\n\nEDIT\n\nWELL DONE TO THE POSTER ABOVE - FOR TRYING TO PASS OFF A CUT n PASTE FROM WIKIPEDIA AS THEIR OWN WORK\n\nEDIT 2\n\nEVEN WORSE SUZIE - ACTUALLY CLAIMING CUT n PASTE AS YOUR OWN THEORIES
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It depends by what you mean when you say "London Bridge." Most people actually think of the Tower Bridge when they hear "London Bridge," in which case this website may be of some use:\nhttp://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TowerBridge/English\n\nHowever, if you do mean London Bridge, you'll find that there are many versions that hold claim to this name, all on the same site at different points in history. \n\n"London Bridge is a modern structure built on the site of many bridges, one of which (built in 1825 and designed by John Rennie) is now in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. At one time London Bridge was the only bridge in London spanning the River Thames."\n\nThis information above (and more on other bridges in London, including the Tower Bridge) can be found here:\nhttp://gouk.about.com/cs/london/a/londonbridges.htm