London – DEATH BY SPRAWL 

Tragically, because our towns and villages were built on and near good agricultural land, much of that is now buried under bland “suburban sprawl”.  London, built over a very fertile alluvial river basin, being a prime example.  A sad irony that, in becoming “Greater” London, it has annihilated the very reason for its being where it is – the good agricultural land which once nurtured it.