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The Westminster Arms is a public house in the City of Westminster, London, England. It is located on Storey's Gate, about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) west of the Palace of Westminster and near Westminster Abbey. [1] It is one of six local pubs containing a division bell, [2] used to alert members of parliament that a vote will soon be taken in ...
The Covent Garden estate was originally under the control of Westminster Abbey and lay in the parish of St Margaret. [35] During a reorganisation in 1542 it was transferred to St Martin in the Fields , and then in 1645 a new parish was created, splitting governance of the estate between the parishes of St Paul Covent Garden and St Martin, [ 36 ...
Tourists at Buckingham Palace Palace of Westminster Trafalgar Square Piccadilly Circus Covent Garden Market A signpost on Parliament Square with directions for nearby attractions. The City of Westminster contains many of the most famous tourist sites in London.
St James's Park, Green Park, Victoria, and Westminster tube stations St James's Park is a 23-hectare (57-acre) urban park in the City of Westminster , central London . A Royal Park , it is at the southernmost end of the St James's area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less , now the site of St ...
Westminster Council House, also known as Marylebone Town Hall: Completed 1920 for the old St Marylebone Borough Council and now serves as main meeting place of Westminster City Council. From 1856 the area was also governed by the Metropolitan Board of Works , which was established to provide services across the metropolis of London.
The crossing may have been relocated several metres as part of traffic management work in the 1970s, with a spokesperson for Westminster City Council saying in 2010 that "by comparing photographs with the Ordnance Survey maps, we believe that the crossing might have been further north nearer 3 Abbey Road, which was the front house of the EMI ...
An aerial view of three Grade I listed buildings in Westminster: The Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St Margaret's Church, which together comprise a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
The Strand (commonly referred to with a leading "The", but formally without [a]) is a major street in the City of Westminster, Central London.The street, which is part of London's West End theatreland, runs just over 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) from Trafalgar Square eastwards to Temple Bar, where it becomes Fleet Street in the City of London, and is part of the A4, a main road running west from ...