{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Wisconsin, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = London, Wisconsin |settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated community]] |nickname = |motto =

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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = [[Area code 608|608]] |blank_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID |blank_info = 1568505<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|1568505|London}}</ref> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''London''' is an [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] located in the counties of [[Dane County, Wisconsin|Dane]] and [[Jefferson County, Wisconsin|Jefferson]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Wisconsin]].<ref name="gnis"/><ref>{{cite map |publisher=[[Wisconsin Department of Transportation]] |title=Jefferson County |url=http://dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/maps/docs/counties/jefferson.pdf |year=2011 |access-date=2011-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025055646/http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/maps/docs/counties/jefferson.pdf |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Dane County portion of London is in the town of [[Deerfield (town), Dane County, Wisconsin|Deerfield]], while the Jefferson County portion is in the town of [[Lake Mills (town), Wisconsin|Lake Mills]]. London is on [[Wisconsin Highway 134]], {{convert|3|mi|km}} north of [[Cambridge, Wisconsin|Cambridge]].

==History== A post office called London was established in 1882, and remained in operation until 1960.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=WI&county=Dane&searchtext=&pagenum=3 | title=Dane County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=22 March 2015}}</ref> A large share of the early settlers being natives of [[London]], England caused the name to be selected.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA95|year=1908|page=95}}</ref>

==Recreation== The [[Glacial Drumlin State Trail]] passes through London.<ref>[http://www.glacialdrumlin.com/Maps/bigmainmap.pdf Glacial Drumlin State Trial]</ref>

==Notable people== *[[Herman J. Severson]], Wisconsin State Senator and jurist, was principal of a school in London.<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1937, Biographical Sketch of Herman J. Severson, pg. 32</ref>

==Images== <gallery> File:London Wisconsin Community Center.jpg|Community center File:London Wisconsin Moravian Church.jpg|Moravian church </gallery>

==References==

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{{Dane County, Wisconsin}} {{Jefferson County, Wisconsin}}

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[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Dane County, Wisconsin]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Wisconsin]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin]]