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Did London Begin In Creffield Road

Come to London next time and think about booking a taxi for a great tour of London and think about its 2,000 year long history. Where did London begin, was it in Creffield Road.

In Stone Age, this now not so good street in the West London village of Acton used to be home and repair shop to historic flint workers. They left 600 repaired flints and its availability is the basis on which our knowledge of pre Roman era in London.

Both with the little proof of a hand axe from Piccadilly Circus and the Acton place are sites present on an archaeologists map from where an old river flowed and was able to create pebbles banks in its clay basin while going to the North Sea. The real story of London in fact begins after 43 AD, when the attacking Roman army located these gravel banks between Southwark and the City as the new site for the bridge. The Romans chose this site very well as the river was Londons strategic strong point and remained so for many centuries.

Roman London or better known as the Celtic Llyn din, started building a fort by the lake, very quickly mushroomed, but had a great setback 17 years later when attacked by British guerrillas under Queen Boadicea and what remained was burned areas around Lombard Street, Gracechurch Street and Walbrook. A renovated Londinium, that is how the Romans called it, had by 100 AD replaced Colchester as the capital, military and main trading centre of Britain. It consisted of a timber built bridge, warehouses, quays and domestic buildings.

Plaster was put on faces of Wattle and daub, Kentish rag stone was carried by boat for authorities public buildings and a dire necessary defensive wall was built to defend raids by the Saxons who used to attack from the Continent. Roads were built to Colchester, York, Chester, Exeter, Bath and Canterbury. So by 288 AD the settlements importance was recognized by Romans. It was given a proud name of Augusta.

Threatened by the German races from the north in 410 AD, Rome had no choice but to get back its military from England. Culture scattered and the very fine fabric of Londinium fell down. Under Saxons rule , its importance was recovered. In the early 8th century, a literary monk, the Venerable Bede, called London as the Market of the World and on the south of the raw London wooden Bridge, the Borough lived a free existence.

Alfred, King of Wessex, by 900, had resisted Danish attacks, but their continuous attacks ended when Sweyn became the King of England. After his demise, Canute was crowned to the throne in the palace that belonged to the Saxon kings which is in the City's Aldermanbury district near Guildhall.

Two miles or 3 km on the high tide of river on Thorney Island, the residence of monk St Peter, who was later called the great Westminster, had been created. Following his agreement in 1042, Edward the Confessor shifted his court from the City and took it to Westminster, thus establishing the separation of royal and commercial power, which had a unequal effect on the features and development of London.

Edward set about renovating the Abbey, where every successor king was crowned, married and till George III who died in 1820, and is buried there.

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