Independently London
Our blog on London, its curiosities and its history, for independently-minded Londoners, and anyone else who might be independently interested in London.
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Shoreditch
Posted on 22 February, 2021
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London Stone
Posted on 18 February, 2021
Unlike Arsenal and Borough, London Stone does not correctly have a “the” in front of it, but no-one seems to know what it is or where it comes from.
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St Pancras
Posted on 14 February, 2021
St Pancras is a church rather than a neighbourhood, but it gave its name to a metropolitan borough that included Camden Town, Kentish Town, Somers Town, and half of Bloomsbury.
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Poplar
Posted on 10 February, 2021
Tucked into the corner where the River Lea meets the Thames, Poplar is named after the poplar trees which once flourished in that well-watered nook.
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Anglo-Saxon London
Posted on 05 February, 2021
The immigrants we call Anglo-Saxons belonged to three Germanic peoples – the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes – who migrated into Britain in the centuries following the Romans’ departure.
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Paddington
Posted on 01 February, 2021
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Marylebone
Posted on 28 January, 2021
Marylebone – or Saint Marylebone – gets its name from its parish church, which is the church of St Marylebone on the Marylebone Road.
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Roman London
Posted on 24 January, 2021
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Lewisham
Posted on 20 January, 2021
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Lambeth
Posted on 16 January, 2021
With its bridge, its palace, and of course its Walk, Lambeth has been the Archbishop of Canterbury’s London seat since the twelfth century.