• The Queen's postcode at Buckingham Palace is SW1A 1AA • Between 1825 and 1925 London was the number one city in the world, until overtaken by New York. • The 01dialling code was introduced to London telephone numbers over a four year period in the late 1960s. • The tallest building at Canary Wharf is at One Canada Square. The tower has 50 floors, 3960 windows, 4388 steps and is 800 feet (244 metres) high. • Bus route1 runs from Tottenham Court Road to Canada Water. • The M1motorway runs 193 miles from Staples Corner in London to Rothwell near Leeds, while the A1trunk road runs 409 miles from the Aldersgate roundabout in London to Waverley Station in Edinburgh. • The One London party, a bunch of rebranded Eurosceptics, were wiped out at the last London Assembly elections. • The 2005 One London campaign still lingers on the Mayoral website. • The Duke of Wellington's address, at ApsleyHouse, was Number One, London.
• London is a six-letter word. • Despite wiping out most of the City's buildings, it is traditionally believed that only six people died in the 1666Great Fire of London (although it was probably rather more than that). • Greater London is divided up into sixtravelcardzones, of which Zone 2 has the most stations. • All of London's underground lines run north of the Thames, but only six run south. • Six tube lines interchange at King's Cross St Pancras - more than at any other station. • Bus route6 runs from Aldwych to Kensal Rise.
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• Only seven people were ever executed inside the Tower of London on Tower Green, including Lady Jane Grey and two of the six wives of King Henry VIII. • Approximately 1 in 7 of the population of England live in London (population 7½million-ish). • 56 people died in the 7/7bombings in July 2005. • The walled City of London had sevengates - Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate, Moorgate and Newgate. • 7streets meet at SevenDials, named after the six sundials on the monument erected there in 1694. The monument itself casts a shadow - this is the seventh dial. • There are sevenglasshouses open to the public at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, including the Temperate House, the Palm House and the Princess of Wales Conservatory. • Seven Sisters on the Victoria Line is London's highest numbered tube station. The area is named after 7 elm trees, supposedly planted in the 14th century by seven sisters (and replanted, by seven sisters, twice since). • Seven Anglo-Saxon kings are reputed to have been crowned on Kingston's Coronation Stone in the tenth century (including Ethelred The Unready). • SevenKings is a minor suburb to the east of Ilford, and is named after chieftan Seofoca (not a number). • Bus route7 runs from Russell Square to East Acton.
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• The London postal district contains eightpostcodes: N, NW, W, SW, SE, E, WC and EC. • There are eightRoyal Parks in London: Bushy Park, Green Park, Greenwich Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Regent's Park, Richmond Park and St James's Park • Eightdeep-level shelters were built in the early 1940s, linked to existing tube stations at Clapham South, Clapham Common, Clapham North, Stockwell, Goodge Street, Camden Town, Belsize Park and Chancery Lane. • Bus route8 runs from my house to Victoria.
• London's most famous address is 10Downing Street, home to the Prime Minister. • CityHall, seat of the Greater London Authority, has ten levels. • The Thames Flood Barrier has ten gates, the largest four of which weigh 3700 tonnes each. • Tenrailway bridges have been built across the River Thames in London: Alexandra, Blackfriars, Hungerford, Grosvenor, Battersea, Fulham, Barnes, Kew and Richmond. • Ten is the lowest number that isn't the first word of a London street name (in either the ordinal or cardinal form). • The A10trunk road runs due north from Monument to Kings Lynn. • Bus route10 runs from Kings Cross to Hammersmith. • What's the most famous number in Wimbledon? 10 is.
• There are only 13motorway junctions in Greater London - three on the M1 (j1, j2, j4), five on the M4 (j1, j2, j3, j4, j4a), one on the M11 (j4) and four on the M25 (j14, j25, j28, j29). • London has 13 Premiership and League football clubs. • Thirteen of London's green wooden cabmen's shelters remain (there were originally 61). • The A13trunk road from Aldgate to Shoeburyness is home to the innovative Artscape project, and was an inspiration to Billy Bragg. • Bus route13 runs from Aldwych to Golders Green.
• There are 19 tournament tennis courts at the All England Club in Wimbledon, SW19. • Victoria and Waterloo stations both have 19 mainline platforms, more than any other stations in London. • Residents of Ilford campaignedunsuccessfully to change their postcode from IG1 to the more London-y E19. • The University of London is a federation of 19 self-governing Colleges. • There are still 19grammar schools in London (8 for girls, 8 for boys, and only 3 mixed). • Bus route19 runs from Finsbury Park to Battersea.
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• There are 20road bridges across the River Thames in London: Hampton Court, Kingston, Richmond, Twickenham, Kew, Chiswick, Hammersmith, Putney, Wandsworth, Battersea, Albert, Chelsea, Vauxhall, Lambeth, Westminster, Waterloo, Blackfriars, Southwark, London and Tower. • Medieval London Bridge was supported by 20 stone arches. • The Tower of London contains 20towers, the central one of which is White. • EastEnders is set in the fictional London borough of Walford, E20. • Since April 2000, all London telephone numbers have begun 020. • London has 20regional radio stations. • The A20trunk road runs from New Cross down through Kent to the docks at Dover. • There are 20 different postcodes in London: N, NW, W, SW, SE, E, WC and EC; then BR, CR, DA, EN, HA, IG, KT, RM, SM, TN, TW, UB. • Bus route20 runs from Walthamstow to Debden.
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• There are 21 underground stations inside the Circle Line. • Tower Hamlets is named after the 21Hamlets OfThe Tower: Bednal Green, Blackwall, Bow, Bromley, East Smithfield, Hackney, Limehouse, Mile End, Norton Folgate, Oldford, Poplar, Ratcliff, St Katharines, Shadwell, Shoreditch, Spittlefields, Tower Extra, Tower Intra, Trinity Minores, Wapping and White Chappel. • The London 21 Sustainability Network runs the annual Love London Festival (which ends today). • Gun salutes mark special royal occasions on certain days of the year in London. The basic Royal Salute is 21 rounds. At the Tower of London 62 rounds are fired on Royal anniversaries (the basic 21, plus a further 20 because the Tower is a Royal Palace and Fortress, plus another 21 'for the City of London') and 41 on other occasions. • The A21trunk road runs from Lewisham to Hastings. • Bus route21 runs from Lewisham to Newington Green.
• London's highest-numbered postcode is that for Thamesmead, SE28. • There are (for the next few months) 28 stations on the Hammersmith and City Line. • Prior to 1965, London comprised 28metropolitan boroughs. • A London football team has won the FA Cup28 times (Arsenal 10, Spurs 8, Chelsea 4, West Ham 3, Wimbledon 1, Charlton 1, Clapham Rovers 1). • Only 28 of London's 268 Underground stations are located south of the Thames. • The steepest gradient on the Underground network is 1 in 28, between Bow Road and Bromley-by-Bow. • Bus route28 runs from Wandsworth to Kensal Rise
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