More recent artists to emerge from the London music scene include George Michael's Wham!, Kate Bush, Seal, the Pet Shop Boys, Bananarama, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bush, the Spice Girls, Jamiroquai, Blur, McFly, The Prodigy, Gorillaz, Bloc Party, Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith, Ellie Goulding, One Direction and Florence and the Machine. A survey in 2001 by the London-based Mammal Society found that 80 per cent of 3,779 respondents who volunteered to keep a diary of garden mammal visits liked having them around. London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom. [55] However, most work has accepted a Celtic origin for the name, and recent studies have favoured an explanation along the lines of a Celtic derivative of a Proto-Indo-European root *lendh- ('sink, cause to sink'), combined with the Celtic suffix *-injo- or *-onjo- (used to form place-names). A dead otter was found at The Highway, in Wapping, about a mile from the Tower Bridge, which would suggest that they have begun to move back after being absent a hundred years from the city. Such names have remained in use through tradition, each referring to a local area with its own distinctive character, but without official boundaries. Every element of our building is designed to work alongside every other element, to keep the building cool or warm in an environmentally friendly way. La City limita con Westminster al oeste, con Camden al noroeste, Islington y Hackney al norte, Tower Hamlets al este, y Southwark al sur. Around the same time, the Royal Navy became the world leading war fleet, acting as a serious deterrent to potential economic adversaries of the United Kingdom. For most purposes this was Westminster, although the royal treasury, having been moved from Winchester, came to rest in the Tower. At Kew, the most rainfall in one month is 7.4 inches (189 mm) in November 1755 and the least is 0 inches (0 mm) in both December 1788 and July 1800. Grants of up to £10,000 to support volunteering projects that help people experiencing loneliness and social isolation. London's most popular sport is football and it has six clubs in the English Premier League as of the 2020–21 season: Arsenal, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Ham United. [143] There are 73 members of Parliament (MPs) from London, elected from local parliamentary constituencies in the national Parliament. In 2009–2010 the combined revenue expenditure by London councils and the GLA amounted to just over £22 billion (£14.7 billion for the boroughs and £7.4 billion for the GLA). This is a dynamic search form and results will populate below the input as you type. Although London and the British Isles have a reputation of frequent rainfall, London's average of 602 millimetres (23.7 in) of precipitation annually actually makes it drier than the global average. [376] Knightsbridge, home to the equally renowned Harrods department store, lies to the south-west. and Blackheath F.C.. Twickenham Stadium in south-west London hosts home matches for the England national rugby union team and has a capacity of 82,000 now that the new south stand has been completed.[423]. Similar to the Santander Cycles bike hire scheme, the cable car is sponsored in a 10-year deal by the airline Emirates. Se celebraban reuniones para toda la Ciudad a la sombra de la catedral de San Pablo de Londres. City Hall is part of the More London development located between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, on the south bank of the Thames. The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to house depictions of figures from British history; its holdings now comprise the world's most extensive collection of portraits. It is also a major centre for biomedical research, and three of the UK's eight academic health science centres are based in the city – Imperial College Healthcare, King's Health Partners and UCL Partners (the largest such centre in Europe). [205] The average price for properties in Kensington and Chelsea is over £2 million with a similarly high outlay in most of central London. Few structures in central London pre-date the Great Fire of 1666, these being a few trace Roman remains, the Tower of London and a few scattered Tudor survivors in the city. However, by 2010 the city has recovered; put in place new regulatory powers, proceeded to regain lost ground and re-established London's economic dominance. Luego Edgar Atheling se rindió en Berkhamsted. [66] By about 680, the city had regrown into a major port, although there is little evidence of large-scale production. [344] The M25 is the second-longest ring-road motorway in Europe at 117 mi (188 km) long. Sin embargo, los límites de la City moderna no van más allá de los delimitados antiguamente por el muro, aún habiéndose expandido la conurbación circundante. Desde los años 1990, la margen oriental de la City, así como las zonas de Hackney y Tower Hamlets cercanas a ésta, han constituido un foco de desarrollo progresivo para la construcción de oficinas debido a su relativa disponibilidad de grandes espacios comparado con la City en sí misma. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. The West End is London's main entertainment and shopping district, attracting tourists. [238], According to the Office for National Statistics, based on the 2011 Census estimates, 59.8 per cent of the 8,173,941 inhabitants of London were White, with 44.9 per cent White British, 2.2 per cent White Irish, 0.1 per cent gypsy/Irish traveller and 12.1 per cent classified as Other White. During the period 1991–2001 a net 726,000 immigrants arrived in London.