Comment Comment by noelwelsh London really grew in the Victorian era. E.g. http://www.demographia.com/dm-lon31.htmReading Dickens is one way to get a feel for this. Many locations in his books are not yet part of the London conurbation. IIRC, one book has a character walking over fields to get to Hammersmith, for example.Going back further there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin-in-the-Fields parent noelwelsh 3 years ago
Reading Dickens is one way to get a feel for this. Many locations in his books are not yet part of the London conurbation. IIRC, one book has a character walking over fields to get to Hammersmith, for example.
Going back further there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin-in-the-Fields