Define Central London?

[Budflicker]

What area would you all define as being Central London?

Just inside of the CC zone, or spreading out a little further to say Hackney or Bow and Fulham and Hammersmith?

opinions please?

[anonymous-user]

I would be simple and say Zone 1.

[TIGA84]

JIMMYJ4ZZ said:

I would be simple and say Zone 1.

I'd agree but add north of the river, zone 1 dips into Lambeth etc which I'd class as South London.

ETA - I'd probably class anything inside the Circle line as Central, after looking at a Tube map.

[Spare tyre]

Bïg Ben ïnnit

[anonymous-user]

TIGA84 said:

JIMMYJ4ZZ said:

I would be simple and say Zone 1.

I'd agree but add north of the river, zone 1 dips into Lambeth etc which I'd class as South London.

ETA - I'd probably class anything inside the Circle line as Central, after looking at a Tube map.

Interesting, I'd say Waterloo to Borough is central too.

But then agree that the Circle is the super central.

So maybe it's both!

[Budflicker]

So you have context for my question, we work in a service/engineering role and charge a higher call out/service call rate for central London.

What i'm trying to get is what is acceptable as Central London in terms of charging for an engineer in a van to turn up and do repairs at a higher rate than in the suburbs.

[Cotty]

How about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_London

[Dog Star]

To people that don't go near the south east this is a map showing the centre of That London

[Mobile Chicane]

We are in a similar business and define anything with a 'London' Postcode: W, NW, N, SW, E, SE etc as 'Central'.

Makes it easier when territory planning as you have a clear criterion for allocation, rather than having to work back from a map.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Mobile Chicane said:

We are in a similar business and define anything with a 'London' Postcode: W, NW, N, SW, E, SE etc as 'Central'.

In reality, there's no way Wimbledon SW19 is Central London. Or Kingsbury NW9, or Hanwell W7. Or Catford SE6.

For me, inside the circle line, plus the areas under the circle line on the southbank of the river, like Waterloo and London Bridge.

[Budflicker]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

In reality, there's no way Wimbledon SW19 is Central London. Or Kingsbury NW9, or Hanwell W7. Or Catford SE6.

For me, inside the circle line, plus the areas under the circle line on the southbank of the river, like Waterloo and London Bridge.

And this is where it gets tricky, E11 Wanstead clearly not Central London but E2 Bethnal Green while not in the circle line it's pretty central.

[bobtail4x4]

anything south of Peterbro is London to me

[Puggit]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

In reality, there's no way Wimbledon SW19 is Central London. Or Kingsbury NW9, or Hanwell W7. Or Catford SE6.

For me, inside the circle line, plus the areas under the circle line on the southbank of the river, like Waterloo and London Bridge.

This

[hoegaardenruls]

Puggit said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

In reality, there's no way Wimbledon SW19 is Central London. Or Kingsbury NW9, or Hanwell W7. Or Catford SE6.

For me, inside the circle line, plus the areas under the circle line on the southbank of the river, like Waterloo and London Bridge.

This

That, or just to go with the area covered by the Congestion charging zone.

[67Dino]

Apparently the exact center of London is marked by a plaque in the Church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields overlooking Trafalgar Square. I’d say Central London was a radius of 6 miles from there, covering to Putney in the West, Canary Wharf in the East, Dulwich in the South and Finsbury Park in the North.

A narrower (and perhaps easier) alternative would be just to say “inside the North Circ (A406) and South Circ (A205)”.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

67Dino said:

I’d say Central London was a radius of 6 miles from there, covering to Putney in the West, Canary Wharf in the East, Dulwich in the South and Finsbury Park in the North.

There's no way any of those places are Central London. Canary Wharf is in Docklands, that's not Central London. Dulwich...

The world's gone mad!

[anonymous-user]

Although I am still a proponent of the Zone 1/circle line + bit of the southbank hybrid approach, you could use an inner london boroughs versus outer approach per this link:

https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/node/1938

Would make it clear for customers.

[Deesee]

As above congestion charge area cover modern central London.

Previously you may have included Kensington to the west, Whitechapel to the east.

Now the ULEZ zone..

[Condi]

Dog Star said:

To people that don't go near the south east this is a map showing the centre of That London

To people from the South East, here is the UK....




Ummmm........

[Deesee]

Condi said:

Dog Star said:

To people that don't go near the south east this is a map showing the centre of That London

To people from the South East, here is the UK....




Ummmm........

The bad lands