The Growth of London: Every Year 

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It would be great to see some other cities

It's awesome, keep doing what you're doing I love your maps!

Lol

Awesome! Yes, please do other cities.

That might have more to do with railways.

The industrial revolution was 100 years before that.

It wasn't to do with the industrial revolution, by 1863 the country had already become industrialised but the central areas of London were extremely overcrowded. The urban expansion was more to do with railways being extended to outer areas of London and people finding it more comfortable to settle in the suburbs.

V interesting!! it took alot longer for London to grow than many people assume, but it really took off after about 1890. So it passed the 100,000 mark during the reign of Elizabeth I, saw 500,000 around 1680 and made it to a Million by 1810.

@@WhitehornMichael the industrial revolution wasn’t one distinct moment

map men

that is many exclamations

Only 2 likes?

Better see a unfinish map london men soon

The man himself, jay.

When Weltreich?

Hey! Good to see you here! Love your vids!

@Crusader Knightz 393 It is not the industry itself that is causing environmental problems, but the mode of producing. Industry on itself lifted humanity to a much higher stage of Historical development, and we can get even higher, only if the producers owned the means of production.

@Crusader Knightz 393 No actually life and living conditions were much worse before the industrial revolution

@Crusader Knightz 393 life was much worse before then..

Well said.

fuck memes

i dont like london

@@destroyedtelephone4124 k

You have an anime as your pfp Your opinion is invalid

RIP old Surrey

Yeah I was wondering that, as someone from Middlesex, what the hell happened to it?

@@syrus3657 Central government brought in reforms in the 60s that abolished it when they created the bloated monster that is Greater London.

@@syrus3657I was born there too! Unfortunately, along with the county of London, it ceased to exist in an administrative sense in 1965 when Greater London was created and the boundaries were rearranged. Most of it was incorporated into Greater London but some ended up as parts of Surrey, Hertfordshire and Berkshire. Don't worry though because there are still 5 Middlesex counties in America! The middle saxons live on 🎷

miss ya big man

Yeah this was much, much better than expected. The only thing that could have made it even better would be to have separated the 20th century into Edwardian, Interwar and Postwar development, but this video blew my mind nonetheless

you must be very very old to have seen all that development !

@@stewartlancaster6155 I'm a vampire 🧛‍♂️ In all seriousness though the land registry and old parish maps collate exactly to this timelined video. The level of research every few seconds of screentime is insane as you would think someone on RU-vid would generalise the data or simplify it but its just not

Lol so you have been around since 400

WW2 also

I noticed that population drop too

Ikr London lost half of its population from the plague and it slowly recovered and then it got it hard again and for like 20 years the population wasn’t growing until the 1400s and from the war of the roses it lost half of its population again. And also when London was part of the Roman Empire they pretty much lost all of there population from the bubonic plague

There were a couple of plague waves, plus WotRs

@The Truth. My parents sold their house in East Barnet for £21,000 in 1978 and moved to a cheaper house in Suffolk to raise money for their retirement. Meanwhile, a friend who still lived in the same street until recently told me the people who bought the house from my parents sold it a couple of years ago for £500,000 !

@@Derek_S yes but £21,000 was a lot of money in 1978.

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 Not really as the income back then was also 21000 ish in the uk on avg

@@SM-ly5tf Average real income in 1978 was just under £7k.

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 damnn my granpa at the time was making bank then

as i'm a brit, i've took a train to london a few times, i've seen buckingham palace, elizabeth tower, and grenfell tower, which got covered up after the fire. last time i went there was in july 2019

I used to go to London fortnightly as I live quite close. Due to covid, I haven't been able to go. Can't wait to hop back on a thameslink or Southern to the COL again.

I live close to London, and avoid it as much as I can. It is too crowded and expensive. Most times I go there is to get a train to other places.

@@rafaelcosta3238 It's not that crowded compared to other big cities especially the ones in India

Thing is most of the population is in the area built before 1900 it’s just surrounded by low density suburbs that take up way more space

I mean, at the start it wasn't 1st :P

@@xander1052 Winchester go brrr

@@NeongenesisXp More so cirencester as that was the original centre of Roman Britain

@@xander1052 Colchester you mean.

@@thomasrinschler6783 it was one of the two

London was never conquered by the Normans which is why the tower of London exists. The Normans built 2 other castles to surround London. Also the city of London has it's own police force, separate to the metropolitan police which covers the surrounding area.

@@skylarius3757 That's a bit of a misleading distinction. London was never conquered through the means of a siege, no. But that's because ultimately it didn't need to be because it almost immediately submitted to Norman rule and was assimilated into Norman society. The castles outside London were not because it was independent, they were to guard against uprising, just as castles were used similarly throughout William's kingdom. The fact that William was able to build the Tower immediately outside the Roman walls was because it had submitted; that task would be somewhat more difficult if the citizens were resisting. The positioning of the Tower, overlooking the old city, was one of domination. William recognised London's special rights and privileges through London's 1067 charter, but just because it had special rights doesn't mean that it wasn't within his kingdom. In fact it proves that it was - how can William issue a charter for a city if he doesn't rule it? After a fire in 1077, in which the original Tower was destroyed, William decreed that all fires in the City must be extinguished at night. Despite this, another fire in 1087 destroyed St Paul's, which was immediately rebuilt by William. Again, how was William rebuilding structures in the middle of a city he didn't rule? The Bishops of London, based at St Paul's (Hugh d'Orevalle, Maurice, Richard de Beaumis, Gilbert Universalis), were all Norman appointments. Again, how?

London

Maybe the real Londons were the friends we made along the way.

Did you just use London 10 times in one sentence?

All farmers lost their jobs lol

@Alfie Green Yeah and those open areas r just Parks

@Alfie Green They are. I can recognise a few of them. Some are private property but the majority are Parklands

@Alfie Green If you live in London you can at least recognise those places

@@arolemaprarath6615 ??

Just remember that the City of London is 2.90 km2 (1.12 sq mi)

the greater lonon ara is about 50km wide end to end

@@sssddfsafsda494 Area*

Me too, tou're my favourite map youtuber! :)

And the population of rome only recovered its imperial period numbers in the industrial revolution😳

@@Fred_the_1996 Shut up. Life in Rome wasn't good for 99% of people.

@@timothymatthews6458 ? What I said had nothing to do with the quality of life, ofc 19th century life was a lot better than roman life lmao. Still, the quality of life must've been way better in ancient rome than in the early middle ages

@VINNIE Abcde I hate the french and english. So no thanks.

@@y.r._ You hate the French and the English because you're jealous that those two countries had the biggest empires in history and were very powerful and are still very powerful today

Thats what expolential growth is. In 1000 years it doubles, from tiny to small then 500 years from small to less small then 250 to sizable then 120 to giant and 60 to... green belt and basically the same.

It's meant to be chap not champ

I mean, I think London used to be better

Having lived in London I thought it was the ugliest looking part of England.

in london you cannot find any britons at all, it's like you enter another country

The growth of Rome would be very interesting, considering how it's expanded and contracted over the millennia.

Only cause I'm Canadian, the growth of Toronto every month lol

Konstantinopoli*

@@Lazar620 *Istanbul. Its been officially called Istanbul since the 1920s

@@solfennell8981 no turkish mud on greek land

Birmingham started existing around 700AD as a Saxon village (named after Beorma) and remained a village until Victorian times. Like London, surrounding villages (e.g. Erdington named after Eordwulf I think?) grew together to form the city.

@Antonio Ferrara But in medieval age, Roma had decreases and dropouts interesting to see.

good turtle

Thanks turtle

Why do you post unfunny try hard comments on every video?

Iberia ruled more because Felipe II shared no ocean with any rival except three seas with Turks (Med. Red & Persian Gulf).

as a Irish guy, I feel offended.

@@galaxyred7 I plan to learn Irish.

@@galaxyred7 what do you feel offended about? Asks a fellow Irish guy

IT'S CALLED BYZANTION

Yes, the might of Constantinople would be awesome to watch!

@@Fred_the_1996 🤦🏼‍♂️

@@metehankanmaz8805 it was a joke

@@Fred_the_1996 Okay. 😶

MEDIEVAL TIMES WERE THE BEST

Yawn.

Venice would be pretty boring after the late 1600s as it basically stayed the same

@@nicolamiceli9097 Unless one went to the Terra Firma of course...

@@scipioafricanus5871 yeah if it was just the city proper

u mean Constantinople ?

@@vattghern257 There is no city called Constantinople. The name of that city is Istanbul. I am from Turkey >:(

@@user-xm5eq5rm9o what else? You will call greek yoghurt, turkish? Ha! Kappa

@@vattghern257 FATIH SULTAN MEHMET conquered Istanbul in 1453. Now get the f#ck out of here. Istanbul Turkey alanine. The name of that city is ISTANBUL!🖕🤛

@@user-xm5eq5rm9o Ha! go with that weirdo

England is my city - London

What a horrible idea.