London Village

[gazzawazza]

Mark n Lard constantly refer to London as a village. I know and understand their humour, but did anyone refer to it as that before them? What I mean is, is it totally their invention arising from their chit-chat or does it have some other origin possibly from cock-er-nies referring to it as that?

[map08]

It could have arisen out of the idea that London as a whole is a collection of little villages...