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Looking along Queensway from Hyde Park down. Queensway (formerly Queen's Road) is a shopping street in Bayswater, an area of west London. It is home to Whiteleys, many restaurants, cafés, pubs, souvenir shops and a few high-street retail chains. Queensway and Westbourne Grove are identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in ...
Manchester City, 6 November 1999) Loftus Road (currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons), is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers Football Club. In 1981, it became the first stadium in British professional football to have an artificial pitch of Omniturf ...
Harrow Road. Coordinates: 51°33′16″N 0°18′55″W. The Flora, 525 Harrow Road. Harrow Road is an ancient route [1] in North West London which runs from Paddington in a northwesterly direction towards Harrow. It is also the name given to the immediate surrounding area of Queens Park and Kensal Green, straddling the NW10, W10, W2 and W9 ...
Kensington Park School is just south of the Queen's Gate Gardens, opposite the museum. [8] The road also lends its name to a private girls' school, Queen's Gate School, which is situated on the road. [9] On the west side is Baden-Powell House. [10] The 100 Queen's Gate Hotel London, a historical building dating back to 1870, is also situated there.
The Bakerloo line (/ ˌbeɪkərˈluː /) is a London Underground line that runs from Harrow & Wealdstone in suburban north-west London to Elephant & Castle in south London, via the West End. Printed in brown on the Tube map, it serves 25 stations, 15 of which are underground, over 23.2 kilometres (14.4 mi). It runs partly on the surface and ...
A mass petition to the Queen, in support of a recommendation by epidemiologist William Farr, led to the creation of the park. [6] The UK Parliament passed the York House and Victoria Park Act 1841, [7] which enabled the Crown Estate to purchases 218 acres (88 ha) which were laid out by notable London planner and architect Sir James Pennethorne between 1842 and 1846.
Bayswater tube station is the subject of a painting by Walter Sickert dating from 1916, showing the platform-sign reading 'Queen's Road (Bayswater)' beside a big advertisement for Whiteley's department store. The station was later renamed Bayswater, [ 7 ] to avoid confusion with Queensway station, which was also named 'Queen's Road' until 1946.
Open space in the rest of the region is dominated by the remaining three Royal Parks and many other parks and open spaces of a range of sizes, run mainly by the local London boroughs, although other owners include the National Trust and the City of London Corporation. London is made of 40% public green space, including 3,000 parks and totaling ...