london size?

Question

how big was london during:
roman times
middle ages
18th century
today

Answer 1

120 AD: 60,000
declined to around 15,000 around 300 AD
1300: 80,000
1605: 225,000
1800: About a million
1900: 6.7 million
today: 7.5 million in city, 14ish metro area

Answer 2

In Roman times London was about the size of the current City of London, or about a square mile, and on the same site. The medieval city was much the same size. Westminster had been founded, around the site of the Abbey, but this was a different city, quite seperate from the City of London. This area became the seat of the Kings and Queens with the building of Whitehall Palace. It was, in fact, quite difficult to travel between the two cities, except by river, due to the topography, particularly the deep ravine now crossed by Holborn Viaduct. In the 18th century development tokk place west and north of Westminster with the building of grand squares and town houses for the aristocracy. Gradually, the gap between the two cities was filled by building and by the 18th century they were one conurbation. The city continued to expand on all sides in the 19th century, due in part to the railways making travel easier, and to the wish of people to live 'out of town' That expansion continued into the 20th century, particularly in the late 1920s/1930s this time as a result of the extension into the country of the electric underground railways. One such, the Metropolitan, actually went into property development on it's own account - to build houses - to fill with people - to fill its trains into 'town'. After WW2, alarmed by uncontrolled development, ribbon development etc, the then government introduced more stringent planning controls and the concept of 'green belts' upon which building would not be allowed. Now the city is expanding eastwards along the banks of the River Thames towards the sea - the so-called 'Thames Gateway'.

Answer 3

Big enough to whallop the States.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London