Apart from the Olympic Games and the European Football Championship, 2012 offers us another magnificent event of great importance. Reaching its fourteenth anniversary it is the first time the Paralympics are held in London, as the event was created after the last time the city was home to the Olympic Games in 1948. The 2012…
Follow the flame, enjoy the game As we follow the Olympic Torch and count the days remaining until the 2012 London Summer Olympics we realize that we have just a bit over a month until one of the most expected events of the year starts. The Torch has been lit for more than a month…
Transfer from Heathrow Airport to Harwich Port On the estuaries of Orwell and Stour rivers lays the 3rd port we are going to talk about, Harwich Port. Harwich is in fact the name of the town that houses the port, which is part of Haven Ports that are located on the coast with the North Sea,…
Another major airport in London is London’s Southend Airport situated in the district of Rochford within Essex. 50 years ago London Southend Airport was the third busiest one in the UK but it stopped most of its activities in 1970 when all its roles were passed to Stansted. Today, the airport is alive once again…
Starting from central London and following the line of A41, to the left into A406 and after that straight in M1, on a distance of 56.5 km, we reach one of the biggest passenger airports in the UK, a place where yearly over 9 million people land or depart. With almost 75 years of history,…
Transfer from Bethnal Green (E2) to Heathrow Airport East London 2 is the same with the Bethnal Green district, historically an agrarian hamlet of Middlesex, in the ancient parish of Stepney. Because of the great increase in population the area witnessed in the 17th century, it was forced to a split and became the parish…
Transfer from Highbury (N5) to Heathrow Airport The area now known as Islington was part of the larger manor of Tolentone, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Tolentone was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Road. The manor house was situated by what is now…
Transfer from Finchley Central (N3) to Heathrow Airport
Finchley is a districtin Barnetin north London, England. Finchley is on high ground, about 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Charing Cross. It formed an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, becoming a municipal borough in 1933, and has formed part of Greater London since 1965. It is predominantly a residential suburb, with three town centres.
Finchley probably means Finch’s clearing or finches’ clearing in late Anglo-Saxon; the name was first recorded in the early 13th century. Finchley is not recorded in the Domesday book, but by the 11th century its lands were already included in those of the Bishop of London. In early medieval period the area was sparsely populated woodland. During the 12th and 13th century proper farming began, and by the 15th and 16th century the woods on the eastern side of the parish were cleared to form Finchley Common. The medieval Great North Road, which ran through the common, was notorious for Highwaymen until the early 19th century. In the 1270s the parish church of St Mary is first recorded. The settlement at Church End grow up around it. Near the northern gate to the Bishop of London’s park the hamlet of East End, later East Finchley had begun to develop by 1365. The Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (later the Great Northern Railway) reached Finchley in 1867. The route ran from Finsbury Park via Finchley to Edgware. The High Barne branch opened from Finchley in 1872.
As you may know London has a diversity of transport methods, some more sophisticated than the others. Even if for tourists the most popular London transport method are the red buses, another preferred way of travel for the occupants in the English capital is the tube or, the subway, that carries more than 3 million…
Transfer from Westminster (W1) to Heathrow Airport As W1 is one of the major districts in the English capital, being situated right in the heart of London, our first article will be focused on this important historical and economical region. In a brief description, depending on your point of view, the W1 district could be…