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Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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275 points zeristor | 4 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.695s | source
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trenchpilgrim ◴[12 Nov 25 00:07 UTC] No.45894655[source]▶
Note this is about the City of London, an entity much smaller and older than the modern city known as London. It's land area is about 3 km^2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London

Title should probably read "the City of London" rather than "London".

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EFreethought ◴[12 Nov 25 02:42 UTC] No.45895843[source]▶
I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London".

Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".

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turbonaut ◴[12 Nov 25 05:59 UTC] No.45896816[source]▶
For further confusion, ‘London’ does not exist at all as a well defined entity and the UK has no de jure capital.
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globular-toast ◴[12 Nov 25 06:45 UTC] No.45897066[source]▶
For even further confusion "London" actually contains two cities: London and Westminster. London was a walled city but Westminster was not. So "London" was we know it today is more like Westminster than London.
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1. zeristor ◴[12 Nov 25 08:26 UTC] No.45897672[source]▶
What about Southwark?

That has a cathedral too.

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2. globular-toast ◴[12 Nov 25 09:14 UTC] No.45898029[source]▶
A cathedral is neither necessary nor sufficient for city status. City status in the UK is given by the monarch and that's all there is to it. Cambridge is a city without a cathedral and Bury St Edmunds is a town with a cathedral.
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3. walthamstow ◴[12 Nov 25 11:41 UTC] No.45898950[source]▶
Indeed. Southend got city status mostly because their MP was murdered.
4. zeristor ◴[12 Nov 25 12:08 UTC] No.45899173[source]▶
As is Southwell.