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48  ENGLAND ’ S SOUTH C O AST REGION B Y REGION

Street-by-Street: Whitehall
and Westminster

The broad avenues of Whitehall and Westminster are 7 Downing
lined with imposing buildings that serve as the historic Street
seat of both government and the established church. Sir Robert Walpole
On weekdays the streets are crowded with civil servants was the first Prime
Minister to live
who work in the area, while at weekends they take on here in 1732.
a diffe rent atmosphere with a steady flow of tourists.

The Cabinet War Rooms DOWNING
and Churchill Museum
served as Winston STREET
Churchill’s World
War II headquarters.
St Margaret’s
Church is the
parish church K I N G C H A R L E S S T R E E T
for MPs.

9 . Westminster Abbey
The abbey is London’s oldest and
most important church.
S
Central Hall S T O R E Y , G A T E P A R L I A M E N T S T R E E T
(1911) was built G R E A T G E O R G E S T R E E T
for the Methodist
Church in 1911.

PA R L I A M E N T S Q U A R E
B R O A D S A N C T U A R Y B R I D G E S T R E E T

S T M A R G A R E T STREET

Richard I’s Statue
Marochetti’s bronze statue
was erected in 1860.

T
E
E
R
T
Dean’s Yard B I N G D O N S
G R E A T C O L L E G
An arch near the west
door of the abbey E S T R E E T
leads into this grassy A
square, surrounded
by picturesque The Burghers of Calais
buildings from is a cast of Auguste Rodin’s
different periods. 1886 sculpture.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see p174 and pp184–5

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