Each borough is made up of many smaller areas that are variously called districts, neighbourhoods, suburbs, towns or villages.
[1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
Mark Twain described London in 1896 as "fifty villages massed solidly together over a vast stretch of territory".
"[3] London boroughs are the result of amalgamations of hundreds of ancient parishes that date from at least the 12th century[4] and are in some cases based on earlier manors.
[5] Download coordinates as: These are the areas of London that are variously described as districts, neighbourhoods, suburbs, towns or villages.