Discover Ancient London With the HK Google Earth Flyover

Submitted by Sean Williams on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 15:38

London is a massive metropolis, buzzing with energy and bags of history to boot. Well now you can see the city's top ancient sights, all handily presented in our custom Google Earth flyover. For there's plenty more to London than its monstrous museums - though they're all pretty good too - and this map gives you the chance to plan a first-time visit, tell a friend or just take a day out to explore London's proud heritage. There's no shortage of events either; check our calendar page for the pick of the city's listings, which include this year's British Archaeology Festival. In short London's a fantastic place to get your fill of the ancient world, and our map makes seeing all its ancient nooks and crannies just that bit easier.

The tour below utilises aerial photography with 3D models to give a realistic and innovative look at how the ancient world still exists in our very modern world. The tour is complete with clickable Heritage Key logos, which will link you to articles on this website, as well as photographs from our Heritage Key Flickr photo pool.

The tour enables you to fly over and explore the sites and their surroundings, and where you see a Heritage Key logo, you can click it and you'll see more information about the adjacent landmark.

To view this Google Earth Tour, you will need to download additional software created by Google. You will require Google Earth 5.0 which will need to be installed in order to explore the aerial photography in a 3D environment. Once the software is installed, you will need to return to this webpage and download Google Earth Plugin (Your browser should meet minimum requirements). the Plugin can be downloaded by selecting it in the panel below:

To open webpages in a new window, right click the link in the information window and select "Open link in new window". This will enable you to view the link in a full web browser.

You can also download this tour to your computer by clicking here, selecting "Save" and then running the file. It will automatically open Google Earth and begin the Heritage Key: London Tour

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Sean Williams

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Join Heritage Key Live from Stonehenge Spring Equinox | Celebrate St. Patrick's by Visiting Loughcrew for Spring Equinox | What can you Expect from Stonehenge Spring Equinox 2010?

Sean is an English Literature graduate, who currently works as a writer and journalist in London. He enjoys ancient history, theatre and sport. He does not enjoy Big Brother.

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Rebecca T:

This is great! As a non-Londoner, it can be difficult to get a sense of where the main sites are in relation to each other, but this gives a really good overview, and offers some interesting suggestions of ancient world places to visit. Next up - virtual ancient world London transport planner?

Wed, 08-07-2009 08:05

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