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50  BRIT AIN AND IRELAND

1 London A1 Cambridge
Watford
Highgate Walthamstow
The largest city in Europe, London is home to more than seven A11
million people. Founded by the Romans in the first century AD A406 Hampstead Islington Hackney
as an administrative center and trading port, the capital is the Willesden A5 Camden City
A40 Airport
principal residence of British monarchs, as well as the center of Oxford A13
government and business, and is rich in historic buildings. In Thames
addition to its many museums and galleries, London is an Heathrow Hammersmith Southwark
Airport
exciting city, with a vast array of entertainments. In 2012, Windsor M4 Chelsea A2
London hosted the Olympic Games. Developments completed Kew Chiswick Fulham Camberwell
for the event, such as the Aquatics Centre, designed by the A316 Clapham
late Zaha Hadid, have added to the city’s attractions. Millennium Foot Bridge, leading to Tate Wandsworth A205
Modern on Bankside Richmond A2212
Wimbledon
Streatham
Thames
Kingston-upon- A23
REGENT'S Euston Thames A3 Mitcham
Square
PARK Great EUSTON RD WOBURN PLACE Guildford Brighton Gatwick
Airport
Baker Portland
MARYLEBONE RD CLEVELAND ST
Street Street GOWER STREET
Warren
Street
Regent's Park
SQ.
RUSSELL
Goodge SOUTHAMPTON ROW
Street BLOOMSBURY ST Barbican ALDERSGATE ST
MO RTIMER ST HIGH HOLBORN HOLBORN HOLBORN VIADUCT LONDON WALL
MARYLEBONE GREAT PORTLAND STREET
PORTLAND PL
TOTT ENHAM COURT ROAD
Tottenham
Chancery
Court Road
WIGMORE STREET S TR EE T SOHO NEW OXFORD ST KINGSWAY Holborn CHANCERY LANE Lane STREET FARRINGDON NEWGATE ST St Paul's CITY MOORGATE BISHOPSGATE HOUNDSDITCH
HARLEY STREET
BAKER STREET
GLOUCESTER ROAD
CHEAPSIDE POULTRY THREADNEEDLE ST
OX F OR D Oxford SQUARE BURY AVENUE Covent STRAND LUDGATE H ILL LEADENHALL ST ALDGATE
Circus
Summer relaxation along the banks of the MARBLE ARCH Bond WARDOUR STR EET CHARING CROSS RD Garden FLEET S TREET NEW BRIDGE ST VICT ORIA ST KING WILLIAM S GRACECHURCH ST FEN CHURCH ST M I N O R I E S
Bank
SOHO
Street
Thames at Richmond Lancaster Marble NEW BOND ST R EGENT STREE T ALDWYCH Temple QUEE N Mansion
Arch
Fenchurch
Gate BROOK STREET CONDUIT ST SHAFTES EMBANKMENT Blackfriars House CANNON ST TREET GREAT TOWER S T Street Tower Hill
Cannon
BAYSWATER ROAD HYDE PICCADILLY Leicester STRAND Waterloo Blackfriars Thames Street Monument T O WER HILL EAST SM ITHFIELD
Square
MOUNT STREET
Queensway PAR K LANE OLD BOND ST CIRCUS Charing Bridge Bridge Southwark London
MAYFAIR BERKELEY ST Piccadilly Cross Bridge
National
Circus
Theatre
KENSINGTON PARK Hayward STAMFORD STREET SOUTHWARK BR. RD BOROUGH H IGH ST Bridge London
THE RING
Bridge
Kensington S ERP ENTINE ROAD PALL MALL VICTORIA Hungerford Royal Gallery SOUTHW ARK STREE T The Shard
Palace PICCADILLY ST JAMES'S ST Foot Bridge Festival
Green
Serpentine Hyde Park Park WHITEHALL Hall ST THOMAS ST
Corner THE MALL
GARDENS ROTTEN ROW HYDE GREEN ST YORK ROAD T O OLEY STREET
PARK
CORNER PARK JAMES'S
KENSINGTON PALACE GDNS
BUCKINGHAM PARK Westminster
KENSINGT O N ROAD KNIGHTSBRIDGE Knightsbridge GARDENS St James's Westminster
PALACE
B R OMPTON ROAD KNIGHTSBRIDGE GRO SVENOR PLACE GROSVENOR BUCKIN GHAM GATE GREAT PETER ST MILLBANK Thames LAMBETH PALA C E R OAD
STREET
Bridge
Park
VICTORI A
LOWER
PLACE
EXHIBITI ON ROAD
South Victoria WEST MINSTER
Kensington ROCHESTER ROW HORSEFERRY ROAD Lambeth
Bridge
M I L LBA N K
Sights at a Glance 0 British Museum pp60–61 p Shakespeare’s Globe ROAD
VAU XHALL BRIDGE
1 Westminster Abbey pp54–5 q Madame Tussauds a The Shard Vauxhall
Bridge
2 Houses of Parliament w Regent’s Park s Tower of London pp68–9
3 Coca-Cola London Eye e Hyde Park d Tower Bridge
4 Buckingham Palace r Science Museum
5 Tate Britain t Natural History Museum Greater London (see inset map)
6 National Gallery y Victoria and Albert Museum f Greenwich
7 Trafalgar Square u St. Paul’s Cathedral g Notting Hill and Portobello Road
8 Piccadilly i Museum of London h Richmond and Kew
9 Covent Garden o Tate Modern j Hampton Court
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