Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey is a working Anglican church that has crowned every English and British monarch since 1066 — forty of them — and buried eighteen.
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Westminster Abbey is a working Anglican church that has crowned every English and British monarch since 1066 — forty of them — and buried eighteen.
The Palace of Westminster is the seat of the two houses of the United Kingdom Parliament and, unlike the other great buildings on this stretch of the Thames, it is a workplace before it is a monument.
Big Ben is the bell, not the tower.
Buckingham Palace is the London residence and the administrative headquarters of the British monarch, standing at the western end of The Mall in the City of Westminster.
Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140-hectare) royal park in the City of Westminster, the largest of the four central London parks and the one that runs west from Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner to the Serpentine and the boundary…
Trafalgar Square is the ceremonial public square at the top of Whitehall in the City of Westminster, owned by the King in Right of the Crown and managed by the Greater London Authority.
Piccadilly Circus is a road junction in the City of Westminster, not a building and not a site with a gate, and everything a visitor comes to see stands in or around the traffic.
Somerset House is a large Neoclassical building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames. The structure serves as a major arts and cultural centre, housing various creative organisations, galleries, and public spaces.
Kensington Gardens is one of the Royal Parks of London, situated immediately to the west of Hyde Park. The gardens were originally the private grounds of Kensington Palace, and were opened to the public in the nineteenth century.
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