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In her 1850s poem In a London Drawing Room, George Eliot likens London to a “solid fog: far as the eye can stretch,” a “monotony of surface and of form, without a break to hang a guess upon.”
More than 170 years on, England’s capital has much cleaner air, thankfully, but, with a population of 9.6 million and growing,