'London Boy': The Taylor Swift guide to the UK capital

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Taylor Swift is in love again, ladies and gentlemen, and this time it's with a nation. Her new song 'London Boy' name-checks a host of London neighborhoods and things to do.

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Like most kinds of PDA, it's heartfelt but has people cringing -- particularly London's locals. Here's the lowdown on Taylor Swift's take on the city -- and where to find the places she mentions.Like a lot of visitors to London, Swift starts by walking through"Camden Market in the afternoon.

The glorious green open spaces of Hampstead Heath are a short distance away, where Swift can blow off the cobwebs on a post-pub stroll.It's a testament to the power of love that Swift enjoys her London Boy and his friends swapping in-jokes and sophomore high jinks from"uni" -- a colloquial term for university.

If you're looking for"Louis V up on Bond Street," however, you'll be out of luck. Despite there being a tube station of that name, Bond Street does not technically exist: There is only Old Bond Street and New Bond Street, where the Louis Vuitton store can be found at Numbers 39-42.The gentrification of the South London neighborhood of Brixton can be charted in its appearance in pop songs.

 

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