Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich (Großbritannien u. Nordirland), Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Big Ben (W3)

Big Ben ist der Name der Glocke im Turm des Londoner Houses of Parliament.
Der Name der berühmten Glocke im gleichnamigen Turm hat ihren Namen nach Sir "Benjamin" Hall, der während ihrer Entstehung verantwortlich für die öffentlichen Bauten in London war.

Buffalo City (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.ingrids-welt.de/reise/sa/allgbev.htm
"Buffalo City" ist nicht "London" und liegt auch nicht in England. Die südafrikanische Stadt ist hier nur aufgeführt wegen des Namensteils "London". Zur Verwirrung tragt bei, dass viele Städte in Südafrika seit November 2002 umbenannt wurden und wieder afrikanische Namen tragen sollen. So wurde aus: "East London" = "Buffalo City".

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Cockney English (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.krysstal.com/cockney.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.krysstal.com/language.html#borrow
Londoners (some of whom are known as "Cockneys") have their own distinct vocabulary full of rhyming slang and unusual words developed in the criminal underworld.

During the 19th Century, the criminal underworld in London developed their own secret language, often based on rhyming slang. A few of the more common and interesting words are tabulated here. Enjoy ...

congestion charge (W3)

Die Verkehrssituation in London brachte die Oberen auf die Idee, eine "Staugebühr" einzuführen. So werden auch neue Begriffe geboren.
Ansonsten wird "congestion" (= "Stau", "Verschleimung") im medizinischen Bereich im Zusammenhang mit Arterien oder Bronchien verwendet.

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demon - London Slang Page

(E?)(L?) http://www.geezer.demon.co.uk/


Downing Street (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.sacklunch.net/placenames/


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krysstal - London Place Names - London and the UK

(E1)(L1) http://www.etymonline.com/
(E?)(L?) http://www.krysstal.com/language.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.krysstal.com/londname.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.krysstal.com/tourist.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/l.htm
(E?)(L1) http://www.krysstal.com/english.html
(E?)(L1) http://www.krysstal.com/index.html#language
London is a collection of villages that sprang up and slowly amalgamated into the 1500 square kilometre city of the present. Here we look at the origin of place names in London.

The origin of London's place names (districts and boroughs)
Place Name | District or Borough | Original Meaning | First Recorded



The 32 London Boroughs:
Barking and Dagenham | Barnet | Bexley | Brent | Bromley | Camden | The City of London | The City of Westminster | Croydon | Ealing | Enfield | Greenwich | Hackney | Hammersmith and Fulham | Haringey | Harrow | Havering | Hillingdon | Hounslow | Islington | The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames | Lambeth | Lewisham | Merton | Newham | Redbridge | Richmond Upon | Thames | The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea | Southwark | Sutton | Tower Hamlets | Waltham Forest | Wandsworth
© 1997, 2000 Kryss Katsiavriades

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London (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/
(E?)(L?) http://www.questia.com/
(E?)(L?) http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11791765
(E?)(L?) http://www.sacklunch.net/placenames/
(E3)(L1) http://www.susas.de/MA3_2.htm
Die heutige "Square Mile", die City ist dort, wo "London" einst von den Römern als "Londinium" gegründet wurde.

London, Jack (W3)

(E1)(L1) http://www.prismenfernglas.de/etymologie.html


London Underground Logo (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground
Das 1913 von Edward Johnston entworfene Logo der "London Underground" ähnelt der Markierung, die als Lademarke an Schiffen angebracht wurde. Der Kreis soll auch die Röhre (engl. "tube") symbolisieren, durch die die U-Bahn fährt. Auf dem Querbalken wird jeweils die U-Bahn-Sation in einer speziellen Sans-Serif-Schrift angegeben.

London Transport's roundel logo and tube map are instantly recognisable by any Londoner, almost any Briton, and many people around the world.

The logo was designed by Edward Johnston in 1913. It resembles part of the mark legally required to be painted on the sides of ships, called the Plimsoll line, a previous British invention. The logo refers to travel through a circular opening as well. Johnston also designed London Transport's distinctive sans-serif typeface in 1916. The typeface is noted for the curl at the bottom of the minuscule "l", which other sans-serif typefaces have discarded. Much of the reason for the widespread recognition of the London Transport logo is its ubiquitous usage on London Transport documents and signage. It is used for all tube station signs (where the station name appears on the horizontal bar), for example, as well as on in-carriage maps.

Since TfL took control of London's transport the roundel has been applied to other transport types within the city (bus, taxi, tram, DLR etc) in different colour pairs. The roundel has become a symbol for London itself.

London Underground Tube map (W3)

Die "London Underground Tube map" in ihrer heutigen Form wurde 1933 von Henry C. Beck, einem Angestellten von "London Transport" vorgeschlagen und entwickelt. Sein U-Bahnplan ähnelte einm Elektrischen Schaltplan.

Bis dahin bildeten die U-Bahnpläne den geographischen Verlauf der Strecken nach. Beck reduzierte die Darstellung auf waagrechte, senkrechte und im 45 Grad Winkel diagonale Linien.

Damit übertrug er die von George Dow seit 1908 praktizierte Darstellung, einer einzelnen Verbindung als gerade Strecke, auf den kompletten U-Bahnverbund.

Diese Darstellung hat allerdings auch Nachteile. Der U-Bahnplan läßt keine Rückschlüsse mehr auf die tatsächlichen Entfernungen zu. So findet man bei wikipedia ein Beispiel bei dem der Ortsunerfahrene 5 Stationen mit Umsteigen fährt um ein 100 Meter entferntes Ziel zu erreichen. Es gibt sogar ein Beispiel in dem der Plan die reale Orientierung (nach Himmelsrichtungen) genau falsch herum darstellt.

Index to stations:

Acton Central | Acton Town | Aldgate | Aldgate East | All Saints | Alperton | Amersham | Angel | Archway | Arnos Grove | Arsenal | Baker Street | Balham | Bank | Barbican | Barking | Barkingside | Barons Court | Bayswater | Beckton | Beckton Park | Becontree | Belsize Park | Bermondsey | Bethnal Green | Blackfriars | Blackhorse Road | Blackwall | Bond Street | Borough | Boston Manor | Bounds Green | Bow Church | Bow Road | Brent Cross | Brixton | Bromley-by-Bow | Brondesbury | Brondesbury Park | Buckhurst Hill | Burnt Oak | Bushey | Caledonian Road | Caledonian Road & Barnsbury | Camden Road | Camden Town | Canada Water | Canary Wharf | Canning Town | Cannon Street | Canonbury | Canons Park | Carpenders Park | Chalfont & Latimer | Chalk Farm | Chancery Lane | Charing Cross | Chesham | Chigwell | Chiswick Park | Chorleywood | Clapham Common | Clapham Junction | Clapham North | Clapham South | Cockfosters | Colindale | Colliers Wood | Covent Garden | Crossharbour | Crouch Hill | Croxley | Custom House | Cutty Sark | Cyprus | Dagenham East | Dagenham Heathway | Dalston Kingsland | Debden | Deptford Bridge | Devons Road | Dollis Hill | Ealing Broadway | Ealing Common | Earl's Court | East Acton | Eastcote | East Finchley | East Ham | East India | East Putney | Edgware | Edgware Road (Bakerloo) | Edgware Road (Circle/District/H&C) | Elephant & Castle | Elm Park | Elverson Road | Embankment | Epping | Euston | Euston Square | Fairlop | Farringdon | Finchley Central | Finchley Road | Finchley Road & Frognal | Finsbury Park | Fulham Broadway | Gallions Reach | Gants Hill | Gloucester Road | Golders Green | Goldhawk Road | Goodge Street | Gospel Oak | Grange Hill | Great Portland Street | Greenford | Greenwich | Green Park | Gunnersbury | Hackney Central | Hackney Wick | Hainault | Hammersmith | Hampstead | Hampstead Heath | Hanger Lane | Harlesden | Harringay Green Lanes | Harrow & Wealdstone | Harrow-on-the Hill | Hatch End | Hatton Cross | Headstone Lane | Heathrow Terminals | Hendon Central | Heron Quays | High Barnet | Highbury & Islington | Highgate | High Street Kensington | Hillingdon | Holborn | Holland Park | Holloway Road | Homerton | Hornchurch | Hounslow Central | Hounslow East | Hounslow West | Hyde Park Corner | Ickenham | Island Gardens | Kennington | Kensal Green | Kensal Rise | Kensington (Olympia) | Kentish Town | Kentish Town West | Kenton | Kew Gardens | Kilburn | Kilburn High Road | Kilburn Park | Kingsbury | King's Cross St. Pancras | King George V | Knightsbridge | Ladbroke Grove | Lambeth North | Lancaster Gate | Langdon Park | Latimer Road | Leicester Square | Lewisham | Leyton | Leyton Midland Road | Leytonstone | Leytonstone High Road | Limehouse | Liverpool Street | London Bridge | London City Airport | Loughton | Maida Vale | Manor House | Mansion House | Marble Arch | Marylebone | Mile End | Mill Hill East | Monument | Moorgate | Moor Park | Morden | Mornington Crescent | Mudchute | Neasden | Newbury Park | New Cross | New Cross Gate | North Acton | North Ealing | Northfields | North Greenwich | North Harrow | Northolt | North Wembley | Northwick Park | Northwood | Northwood Hills | Notting Hill Gate | Oakwood | Old Street | Olympia | Osterley | Oval | Oxford Circus | Paddington | Park Royal | Parsons Green | Perivale | Piccadilly Circus | Pimlico | Pinner | Plaistow | Pontoon Dock | Poplar | Preston Road | Prince Regent | Pudding Mill Lane | Putney Bridge | Queensbury | Queen's Park | Queensway | Ravenscourt Park | Rayners Lane | Redbridge | Regent's Park | Richmond | Rickmansworth | Roding Valley | Rotherhithe | Royal Albert | Royal Oak | Royal Victoria | Ruislip | Ruislip Gardens | Ruislip Manor | Russell Square | St. James's Park | St. John's Wood | St. Paul's | Seven Sisters | Shadwell | Shepherd's Bush (Central/Overground) | Shepherd's Bush (H&C) | Shoreditch | Sloane Square | Snaresbrook | South Acton | South Ealing | Southfields | Southgate | South Hampstead | South Harrow | South Kensington | South Kenton | South Quay | South Ruislip | South Tottenham | Southwark | South Wimbledon | South Woodford | Stamford Brook | Stanmore | Stepney Green | Stockwell | Stonebridge Park | Stratford | Sudbury Hill | Sudbury Town | Surrey Quays | Swiss Cottage | Temple | Theydon Bois | Tooting Bec | Tooting Broadway | Tottenham Court Road | Tottenham Hale | Totteridge & Whetstone | Tower Gateway | Tower Hill | Tufnell Park | Turnham Green | Turnpike Lane | Upminster | Upminster Bridge | Upney | Upper Holloway | Upton Park | Uxbridge | Vauxhall | Victoria | Walthamstow Central | Walthamstow Queens | Road | Wanstead | Wanstead Park | Wapping | Warren Street | Warwick Avenue | Waterloo | Watford | Watford Junction | Watford High Street | Wembley Central | Wembley Park | West Acton | Westbourne Park | West Brompton | Westferry | West Finchley | West Ham | West Hampstead | West Harrow | West India Quay | West Kensington | Westminster | West Ruislip | West Silvertown | Whitechapel | White City | Willesden Green | Willesden Junction | Wimbledon | Wimbledon Park | Woodford | Woodgrange Park | Wood Green | Woodside Park

(E?)(L?) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4769060.stm
Top three 'iconic' designs named
The London Underground map, the Spitfire and Concorde have been voted Britain's three favourite designs of the last century.
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(E?)(L?) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A673517
Life and Times of the London Underground Map
How Helpful Is it?
The Tube Map as Art
The London Underground Font
Frank Pick was Chief Executive of London Transport between 1913 and 1938. He had a great interest in visual arts and commissioned both the "London Underground font" and the famous "London Underground logo".
... the font is still in wide use by designers and the London Underground logo is almost a symbol of London itself.
Pick asked the calligrapher, Edward Johnston, to design the font in 1915. In 1916 after collaboration with Eric Gill (he of "Gill Sans font" fame), the "Johnston Sans Serif font" was produced. A few minor modifications later and we have the "Johnston Underground Font" which is still used on all London Underground maps, stations, posters and materials today. The New Johnston Underground font can be downloaded, too.

(E?)(L?) http://www.mensvogue.com/design/slideshows/2008/03/subway?slide=7
Evolution of the New York Subway Map

(E?)(L?) http://mic-ro.com/metro/metroart.html
A guide to the fifty most beautiful subway systems in the world. With star rating.

(E?)(L?) http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2003/10/london_tube_map.html
London Tube Map with Walklines: sometimes it's quicker to walk
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(E?)(L?) http://www.thetube.com/
London Underground

(E?)(L?) http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1108.aspx
Tube maps

(E?)(L?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck_(graphic_designer)
Harry Beck (graphic designer)
Henry C. Beck (1903–1974), known as Harry Beck, was a graphic designer, best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1933.
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In March 2006, viewers of BBC2's The Culture Show and visitors to London's Design Museum voted Harry Beck's Tube map as their second-favourite British design of the 20th century in the Great British Design Quest. The winner was the Concorde.

(E?)(L?) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground


Londonthorpe (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.questia.com/
(E?)(L?) http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11791765


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New London (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.sacklunch.net/placenames/


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Paddington-Bär (W3)

ist benannt nach dem Londoner Bahnhof "Paddington", wo er einsam in einem Zug aufgefunden wurde.

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statistics
Greater London and the London Boroughs

(E?)(L?) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/london_boroughs.asp
Greater London was established in 1965 as an administrative unit covering the London metropolis. It was not defined as a county but had a two-tier structure, with the lower tier being the London boroughs. Following the abolition of the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1986 the boroughs became single-tier authorities, but Greater London was still widely recognised, especially for statistical and mapping purposes. In 2000 however a two-tier structure was re-established when the new Greater London Authority adopted responsibility for a range of citywide policy areas.

There are 32 actual boroughs, with a status similar to metropolitan districts, and also the City of London, which is a City Corporation and has a number of additional roles. Boroughs are subdivided into electoral wards.

Click on the extract above to view the full map of London boroughs.

London borough names and codes are listed below. The 4 character ONS code consists of the digits 00 followed by the 2 letters of the borough code, which is also listed separately after the borough name.



swan upper (W2)

In London gibt es Schwäne. Voe einigen Jahrhunderten dienten sie dem königlichen Hof zur Bereicherung der Speisekarte. Allerdings hat die britische Königin immer noch die Oberaufsicht über die Schwäne - zusammen mit zwei Gilden, den Weinhändlern (engl. "vintner") und den Färbern (engl. "Dyers"), denen im Mittelalter einige der Schwäne und deren Nachwuchs zugestanden wurden.
Seit über 900 Jahren findet jährlich eine Zählung statt, um den jeweiligen Anteil der Schwäne den drei beteiligten Eignern zuzuordnen. Mittlerweile dient dieser Census auch dem Naturschutz.
Für diese Aufgabe gibt es jedenfalls 6 livrierte Teams, die sogenannten "Swan uppers". - Wenn sie bei einem Schwanenpaar Nachkommen entdecken verkünden sie dies mit dem Ruf "All up!".

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tufts
Perseus Digital Library
London - Bolles Collection

(E?)(L?) http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/4000.01/
The digital archive combines texts, maps, and images into a flexible resource that complements the discovery process. Users can take advantage of the non-linear nature of both research and the Internet, and access the resources in the Bolles collection from a variety of entry points, moving from text, to image, to map and back again to make intellectual connections among the resources.

(E?)(L?) http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2000.01.0043
Gregory Colati, Bolles Collection Overview
The Edwin C. Bolles Collection: A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London

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Vivekananda Centre - London (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.angelfire.com/ma/vivekananda/sanscrit.html


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Waltham Abbey (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/w.htm
Waltham Abbey - Formerly located near London

West End of London (W3)

(E1)(L1) http://www.takeourword.com/
Issue 135 Spotlight The West End of London, Dukes, and Eponyms

Westminster Abbey (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.didyouknow.cd/facts.htm
"Westminster Abbey" in London got its name from its location.

Westminster Palace (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.sacklunch.net/placenames/


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Wittich, John
Discovering London Street Names
The History of London's Street Names

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