When London Was on the Equator

Trafalgar Square 320 million years ago If I could travel back in time to around 320 million years ago (about 318 million years before the first humans appeared) I would find the ground beneath my London home lying some 6 degrees south of the equator. Because of the slow movement of Earth’s tectonic plates over immense spans of time, the land I stand on today once occupied a latitude roughly