Soho
Covent Garden
Leicester Sq/Picadilly
Buckingham Palace/Pall Mall/Trafalgar
Westminster (Big Ben, The Abbey etc)
Marylebone
Bloomsbury/Holborn
The City (Liverpool Street/Bank etc)
Farringdon
Camden
Angel
Kings Cross/Euston
Regents Park/St Johns Wood
Paddington/Bayswater
Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove
Holland Park
Shepherds Bush
Hammersmith
Kensington (High St, Earls Ct etc)
Knightsbridge/South Kensington
Victoria/Pimlico
Brixton
Clapham
South London residential (Tooting, Streatham etc)
Blackheath/Dulwich
Greenwich
SE London residential (Lewisham, New Cross etc)
Canary Wharf
Outer East London (Bow, Barking etc)
Stratford
Hackney
Hoxton/Shoreditch
NE London residential (Tottenham, Arsenal, etc)
North London residential (Finchley, Barnet etc)
Hampstead/Highgate/Belsize
Kilburn/Maida Vale
Warwick Avenue/Little Venice
NW London residential (Wembley, Harrow etc)
Ealing
Acton
Outer West London (Hayes, Hounslow etc)
Chiswick
Fulham
Chelsea
Barnes
Richmond
Kingston
SW London residential (Wimbledon, Southfields, etc)
Your favourite parts of London?
LONDON FORUM NOW
poll coming up.
edit: RIGHT, I've gone circular round central London, and then circular again round outer London. It's a mixture of areas with emphasis on well known places.
APOLOGIES IF YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE IS NOT NAMECHECKED. I've covered most bases.
Last edited by funky; 16-03-2012 at 03:57 PM.
LONDON FORUM NOW
Oh I wrote that without reading your first post
1. Chelsea
2. Chiswick
3. Clapham
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EVERYWHERE ELSE
HORNCHURCH
Isn't that GREATER LONDON but not LONDON?Originally Posted by Tischlampe
POINT OF CONTENTION
Top up, Sue?
It's on the tube!!Isn't that GREATER LONDON but not LONDON?
POINT OF CONTENTION
That doesn't matter, so is Epping and that has a Chelmsford postcode. and Watford is now too!It's on the tube!!
So is Watford.It's on the tube!!
Where Halli was BORN
(Although I don't remember it, so I am officially from East London)
And also, I'm a total Liverpool Street/Shoreditch DICKHEAD.
Chariots Vauxhall
TOP 10
1 Soho/Marylebone/Fitzrovia/Mayfair
The centre. Something for everyone. Each quadrant has its own personality and type of person.
2 Clerkenwell
Like a little town in the centre of the city. Great restaurants.
3 Angel
Where I really want to live. Nice houses. Upper Street is nice EXCEPT when the Bridge & Tunnel CRAWL OUT on Saturday nights.
4 Shoreditch
Cool but not too cool.
5 Maida Vale/Warwick Avenue
The nicest part of London. When I have money I want a flat overlooking the canal.
6 Kensington
A good place to look for a rich piece.
7 Clapham
Shit and overrated, especially by queens, but serves a person if you live south of the river.
8 The City
Full of a lot of hot boys in suits
9 Waterloo
I love that I like 10 mins walk from here
10 Richmond
If I were straight, I would live here at 30+
FEARLESS FEMALE
Has this New York phrase made the UK now?
Top up, Sue?
Tell me more about Clerkenwell, please. Can you wander for a half day or so around it?
As a tourist who considers himself above a tourist and comes to London a fair bit I need somewhere new to explore. I'm up again later this month and will have a couple of hours spare.
If you take in the Barbican, a restaurant and go for a wander, you can probably eke out a few hours. It's not very big.
FEARLESS FEMALE
Poor Hornchurch. Ditched by Essex, but London won't accept it because of its Essex postcode.
I love the 'bridge and tunnel' SNEER.
Even after 4 years, I don't think I know enough of LDN as I'd like. I find Lou's central quadrants talk particularly BAFFLING
What do you mean?
FEARLESS FEMALE
I don't really understand what YOU mean! I know Soho, Mayfair kind of, only because my BUS goes by the hotel of the same name, the other two not so much
you don't know Marylebone?
DUB LONDON TOUR NIGHT OUT needs to be planned immediately.
I'm aware of there being a STATION THERE. That's about it!you don't know Marylebone?
DUB LONDON TOUR NIGHT OUT needs to be planned immediately.
I still kinda refuse to acknowledge Fitzrovia as an area. It never really TOOK OFF, did it? Apart from Charlotte Street, but people just refer to that as, well, Charlotte Street
I see some people are trying to own NOHO now that there is a Noho Square (as in, North of Soho). But Soho is supposed to stand for North Of HOuston (Street), so I'm not really sure how that is going to work. Meh.
I really like Fitzrovia. Charlotte Street is the main attraction, but Great Portland Street and Great Tichfield Street are nice too. It's not quite Marylebone though.
FEARLESS FEMALE
Think of a big square that's intersected by Oxford Street and Regent Street. The south-eastern quadrant is Soho, the south-western in Mayfair, the north-western in Marylebone and the north-eastern in Fitzrovia.
FEARLESS FEMALE
I've lived here 32 years and there are still places in London I've NEVER heard of.
Top up, Sue?
Shoreditch is terrible for bridge and tunnel people too. It went from rough cesspit to pretentious shithole to a destination for the worst sort of Essex people within about a DECADE. Horrendous place.
Oh don't hold back RB, say what you really think.
oh I forgot Waterloo... OH WELL. NO GREAT LOSS.
And VAUXHALL
Top up, Sue?
edit: RIGHT, I've gone circular round central London, and then circular again round outer London. It's a mixture of areas with emphasis on well known places.
APOLOGIES IF YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE IS NOT NAMECHECKED. I've covered most bases.
Not happy with Bow being dumped in with Barking
Bow should be put with Bethnal Green, which I can't see listed
Last edited by Halli; 16-03-2012 at 04:01 PM.
I do wish I'd upped and moved to London when I was younger. I wouldn't want to live there now, but I should have done it when I had the opportunity in my mid 20s. I do still love a visit for no real purpose other than to soak the city in for a day.
The train station, when I am going home.
Take your nose off my keyboard.
I was going to put Waterloo station on the train home.
It's a joke I couldn't even be bothered to make.I was going to put Waterloo station on the train home.
But seeing as we are at it now - HEATHROW
Darling I can ONLY be spotted in KENSINGTON, PIMLICO and HOLBORN
My brother may WELL live in WALWORTH but I have NO INTENTION OF VISITING. He can COME TO ME
And oh...
Oh HOW MANY YEARS
Is it NOW Maurice?
I've just picked the areas that I CHOOSE to visit as opposed to visit. I mean, I go to Kilburn all the time, to see friends. But not because I LOVE THE PLACE.
London is ALL RIGHT but I WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE THERE
Maybe 15 years ago, but NOW? NO THANK YOU
And oh...
Oh HOW MANY YEARS
Is it NOW Maurice?
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