Historical Map of the Environments of London
The metropolis of Great Britain, one of the largest and most opulent cities in the world, is mentioned by Tacticus as a considerable commercial place in the reign of the Roman Emporer Nero. In its most extensive view, as the metropolis, it consists of The City, properly so called, the city of Westminster, which was a mile from London, and the borough of Southwark; beside the suburbs in Middlesex and Surrey, within what are called the Bills of Mortality......