London and other cities in UK

Barbora Rodová, 8.J

Table of contents
• Basic information
– size inhabitants
– location,
– mayor, etc
• Brief history
• Sights
• Interesting facts
– my experience
 Major cities in United Kingdoms
City London Edinburgh Cardiff Belfast
Size 1st (2,900 km2) 9th (264 km2) 14th 18th
Inhabitants 8,308,369 482,640 346,100 286,000
Location South-east Lothian, South Wales County Antrim
England Scotland and Down
Government Boris Johnson Donald Wilson Phil Bale (CC Nichola Mallon
(major) (lord provost) leader) (lord mayor)
 London history
• Myth (Troia Nova, Caer Ludein)
• Roman (Londinium, cap. of Britannia)
• Anglo Saxons (Ludenwic)
• Norman and Medieval (Early Modern English,
Great Plague)
• Tudor (Reformation – Protestantism,
mercantilism, expansion)
 London history
• Stuart (Great Plague, Great Fire of London)
• Georgian (industrial revolution)
• Victorian (bobbies, railways, Great Stink)
• 20th century (The Blitz (bombed),
underground, semi-deteched housing,
• WWII – Air-Battle of England, Great smog)
• Edinburgh history:
– Votadini/Gododdin (Celtic Brittonic tribe), Wars
of the Covenant, financial district
• Cardiff history:
– Silures (Celtic British tribe), Staple ports, Royal
charter, floods
• Belfast history
– Merchant and industrial town, Titanic, Orange
order
 London sights

Buckingham palace London eye

Elizabeth tower
Tower
Big Ben
 London sights

Tower bridge St. Paul’s Cathedral

30 St Mary Axe
City Hall
the Gherkin
 London sights

National gallery Thames Barrier

 Edinburgh sights

Edinburgh Castle The Forth Rail Bridge

Holyrood abbey Parlament of Scotland

 Edinburgh sights

St. Giles’ Cathedral Bank of Scotland

City Chambers
 Cardiff sights

Cardiff Castle The Norman shell keep

The Senedd City hall

 Cardiff sights

Cardiff bay The Pierhead Building

Norwegian Church Wales Millennium Centre

 Cardiff sights

BBC studios
Brains brewery
(Roath Lock)

Casualty
Doctor WHO
Wizards vs Aliens
 Belfast sights

Belfast Castle City Hall

The Parliament
The Belfast Wheel
Buildings
 Belfast sights

The Palm House Titanic Belfast

(Botanic Garden)

The Big fish

 Bath Bristol
(romain baths) (Clifton Suspension Bridge)

Cambridge Oxford
 Canterbury Portsmouth
(Cathedral) (Spinnaker tower)

Glasgow Inverness
(The oldest house in Glasgow) (Airport)
 Liverpool Manchester
(the Beatles)

Loch Ness Carrick-A-Rede Rope

Bridge
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