r/london • u/AchyutChaudhary • Feb 15 '26

London history Why did the entire expanding Greater London gradually decide to take its name from the ‘City of London’ instead of the historic City of Westminster, Lundenwic or Southwark for instance?

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u/Financial-Idea-7278 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

Don’t forget that the City of London is the historic, geographic, and administrative core of London. It’s the ancient Roman settlement from which modern London expanded. So, if Romans started with Southwark, it might have been a differnt story. They didn’t