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London Borough of Harrow
London Borough of Harrow: northwest Outer London borough created 1 April 1965 from Middlesex under the London Government Act 1963. Population 261,300 (2021 census), 22 wards, leader-and-cabinet council led by Cllr Paul Osborn.
London Borough of Hillingdon
London Borough of Hillingdon: west London borough formed 1 April 1965 from Uxbridge and three urban districts, centred on Uxbridge; 305,900 residents at Census 2021, up 11.7% since 2011.
London Borough of Hounslow
London Borough of Hounslow, west London borough formed 1 April 1965 from Feltham, Brentford and Chiswick, and Heston and Isleworth; about 288,200 residents in 2021, 23 square miles, Heathrow-adjacent, £14.9bn GVA.
London Borough of Islington
London Borough of Islington: inner London borough formed 1965 from Islington and Finsbury metropolitan boroughs. 15 km², ~225,000 residents, second densest London borough; polarised between gentrified affluence and large council-housing stock.
London Borough of Lambeth
London Borough of Lambeth is an inner London borough on the south bank of the Thames, formed in 1965 by merging Lambeth with Clapham and Streatham, known for the 1985 rate-capping rebellion.
London Borough of Newham
London Borough of Newham: East London borough formed in 1965, population 351,036 (2021 census), +14.0% growth, London's third-largest borough; Asian 42.2%, Muslim 34.8%, mayoral governance, Royal Docks Enterprise Zone, high deprivation.
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames: southwest London borough formed 1 April 1965 from Barnes, Richmond, and Twickenham; the only borough on both sides of the Thames; population 195,200 (2021).
London Borough of Southwark
The London Borough of Southwark is an inner London borough on the south bank of the Thames, created in 1965 and home to the Tate Modern and The Shard.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
London Borough of Tower Hamlets: East End borough formed in 1965 from Bethnal Green, Poplar, and Stepney; Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman (Aspire), England's densest, fastest-growing borough, with Canary Wharf wealth beside the highest London child poverty.
London Borough of Wandsworth
London Borough of Wandsworth: inner London borough in south-west London, created 1965 from the Metropolitan Boroughs of Wandsworth and Battersea. Over 3,200 acres, 22 wards, 58 councillors, five town centres, lowest council tax in the country.
London boroughs
London boroughs: the 32 local authority districts of Greater London other than the City of London, created by the London Government Act 1963 and effective 1 April 1965, providing most local services under the Greater London Authority.
London Breed
London Breed, 45th mayor of San Francisco (2018–2024) and the city's first African-American woman mayor; won the June 2018 special election after Ed Lee's death, reelected 2019, defeated by Daniel Lurie in November 2024.
London Bridge
London Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in London, connecting the City of London with Southwark; the current concrete bridge opened in 1973.
London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)
London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, whose granite facing comes from the 1831 London Bridge that once spanned the River Thames in London.
London Bridge Is Falling Down
London Bridge Is Falling Down is an English nursery rhyme and arch singing game, first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744), referenced in 1657, and tied to the repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt London Bridge.
London Bridge station
London Bridge station is a mainline railway station in Southwark, central London, opened in 1836, making it the capital's oldest railway station and London's first major passenger terminus.
London Broncos
London Broncos, formerly Fulham RLFC and Harlequins Rugby League, are a London rugby league club founded in 1980, set for a Super League return in 2027.
London Buses
London Buses is the bus network of Greater London, one of the world's largest urban systems, franchised by Transport for London and operated by private companies under contract.
London Business School
London Business School, formally the London Graduate School of Business Studies, is a graduate-only business school founded in 1964 in Regent's Park, London, one of Europe's highest-ranked, offering MBA and executive programs.
London Calling
London Calling, third studio album by The Clash (Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon), double LP released 14 December 1979 UK and January 1980 US, produced by Guy Stevens at Wessex Studios, spanning punk, reggae, rockabilly, soul, funk and R&B.
London Calling (film)
London Calling (2025) is an Allan Ungar action comedy starring Josh Duhamel as hitman Tommy Ward, who mentors a crime boss's awkward son (Jeremy Ray Taylor) after fleeing to LA; 114 minutes, R-rated, 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.
London Calling (song)
"London Calling" is a 1979 single by The Clash, written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, title track of their double album; it peaked at number 11 in the UK and references the BBC wartime call sign.
London Charing Cross station
London Charing Cross station is a central London railway terminus on the Strand, opened in 1864 as the terminus of the South Eastern Railway's routes from Kent.
London Charter of the International Military Tribunal
The London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, known as the Nuremberg Charter, is the 1945 treaty annex defining the Nuremberg tribunal and its crimes.
London Charterhouse
The London Charterhouse is a historic complex in Clerkenwell, London, that has served as a Black Death burial ground, a Carthusian monastery, a Tudor mansion, and since 1611 a charitable almshouse.
London City Airport
London City Airport, also known as LCY or Docklands Airport, opened in East London's Docklands in 1987 and serves over 30 destinations across the UK and Europe.
London CIV
London CIV, formally London LGPS CIV Limited, is an investment pool company owned by London's local government pension funds, pooling borough pension assets at lower cost since 2015.
London Clay
London Clay, or London Clay Formation, is an Early Eocene marine clay formation underlying much of southern England, known for its fossils and as the tunnelling medium beneath London.
London Club
The London Club is the informal, case-by-case process by which committees of commercial bank creditors restructure the sovereign debts of countries in or near default.
London Conference of 1830
London Conference of 1830: five-power diplomatic conference (Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, Russia) opened 4 November 1830 to settle Belgium's secession from the Netherlands; produced the 1831 Treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality, finalized in the 1839 Treaty of London.