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  2. Parliamentary Estate - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of the area of the Parliamentary Estate. The Parliamentary Estate is the land and buildings used by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.. The most notable part of the Parliamentary Estate is the Palace of Westminster, where the chambers of both houses of Parliament (the Commons and the Lords) are located. [1]

  3. Palace of Westminster - Wikipedia

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    The site of the current palace and Houses of Parliament may have been used by Cnut during his reign from 1016 to 1035, and from c. 1045 – c. 1050 Edward the Confessor built a palace and the first Westminster Abbey. The oldest surviving part of the palace is Westminster Hall, which dates from the reign of William II (r. 1087–1100). The ...

  4. Speaker's House - Wikipedia

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    The Speaker's House was refurbished in the 1980s under Sir Robert Cooke, who served as Special Advisor to the Palace of Westminster from 1979 until 1987. [13] The present State Bedroom was created under Cooke; it was created from the drawing room of the adjacent Serjeant-at-Arms house, and linked by a new door to the State Dining Room. [13]

  5. Members' Lobby - Wikipedia

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    Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow shows United States President Barack Obama around the Members' Lobby during a tour of Parliament in 2011. The Members' Lobby is a hallway in the Palace of Westminster used by members of the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

  6. Old Palace Yard - Wikipedia

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    The western part of Old Palace Yard is freely accessible to the public. To its west are located the Henry VII Chapel and the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, while to its south stands 6–7 Old Palace Yard, the sole survivor of the row of houses that used to surround the Yard. The building is now part of the Parliamentary Estate.

  7. Westminster Hall: The colourful history of the 900-year-old ...

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    It measures 240ft (73.2m) long, 68ft (20.7m) wide and 92ft (28m) high. The roof was originally supported by two rows of pillars but in 1399 Richard II wanted to make the hall more impressive by ...

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