National Geographic London Book of Lists by Tim Jepson

Author:Tim Jepson [Jepson, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4262-1385-4
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2014-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

• 1677-1680 The Monument 202 feet/61.6 m

This column (1671-1677) commemorates the 1666 Great Fire. Its height—202 feet (61.6 m)—is also its precise distance from the site of the Pudding Lane bakery where the fire started.

FIRST PERSON

“I don’t know what London’s coming to—the higher the buildings, the lower the morals.”

~Noël Coward, “Law and Order,” Collected Sketches and Lyrics, 1931

FAST FACT

St. Mary-le-Bow features in the famous “church” nursery rhyme “Oranges and Lemons”: “I do not know/Says the great bell of Bow.”

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