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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you get with maps, pho tographs and detailed
the most from your stay in London with the illustrations. In addition, six planned walking
minimum of practical difficulty. The opening routes take you to parts of London you might
section, Introducing London, locates the city otherwise miss.
geographically, sets modern London in its Well-researched tips on where to stay, eat,
historical context and describes the events shop, and on entertainment are in Travellers’
of the London year. London at a Glance is an Needs. Children’s London lists highlights for
overview of the city’s highlights. London young visitors, and Survival Guide tells you
Area by Area takes you round the city’s areas how to do anything from posting a letter to
of interest. It describes all the main sights using the Underground.

London Area by Area
The city has been divided into of the city. The key sights of the section. Each section has a
16 sightseeing areas, each with interest to visitors are numbered large-scale Street-by-Street Map
its own section in the guide. and clearly located on an Area that focuses on an especially
Each section begins with a short Map; these sights are also interesting part of the area,
introduction summing up the numbered on the pages that usually one in which a cluster
character and history of this part follow to help navigation around of attractions can be found.

Colour-coded tabs help you find the
L ONDON AREA B Y AREA  73
section you want.
WHITEHALL AND
WESTMINSTER
Whitehall and Westminster have been at the Edward the Confessor would enlarge into
centre of political and religious power in England’s greatest abbey, giving the area its
England for a thousand years. King Canute, name (a minster is an abbey church). Over the
who ruled at the beginning of the 11th century, fol lowing centuries the offices of state were A locator map shows you where
was the first monarch to have a palace on established in the vicinity. All this is still
what was then an island in the swampy reflected in Whitehall’s heroic statues and you are in relation to surrounding
meeting point of the Thames and its vanished massive government buildings. To its north,
tributary, the Tyburn. Canute built his palace Trafalgar Square marks the start of the West
areas. The extent of the Area Map
beside the church that, some 50 years later, End entertainment district.
Sights at a Glance
Historic Streets and Buildings Churches, Abbeys and is highlighted.
1 Houses of Parliament pp76–7 Cathedrals
2 Big Ben 4 Westminster Abbey pp80–83
3 Jewel Tower 6 St Margaret’s Church
5 Dean’s Yard i Westminster Cathedral NORTHUMBERLAND AVE
7 Parliament Square o St John’s Smith Square WHITEHALL PLACE
9 Downing Street Museums and Galleries WHIT E HALL
0 Churchill War Rooms e Household Cavalry
q Banqueting House Museum HORSEGUARDS AVE
w Horse Guards Parade t Guards Museum EMBANKMENT
r Queen Anne’s Gate p Tate Britain pp86–9
y St James’s Park Station Monuments HORSE GUARDS ROAD RICHMOND Numbered circles pinpoint all the
u Blewcoat School TERRACE
8 Cenotaph Westminster
KING CHARLES ST VICTORIA Pier listed sights on the area map. St
GREAT ST PARLIAMENT Westminster
GEORGE ST BRIDGE ST
OLD
B I R D C A G E W A L K QUEEN ST STOREY’S GATE Westminster Bridge Margaret’s Church, for example, is 6
BROAD
St James's Park SANCTUARY
PETTY FRANCE BROADWAY TOTHILL ST
CAXTON ST GREAT SMITH ST YARD VICTORIA
BUCKIN GHAM GATE
OLD PYE STREET
Street Finder maps 13, 20, 21 V I C T O ARTILLERY R I A S T R E E T GREAT PETER STREET GREAT COLLEG E ST ST OLD PALACE ABINGDON MILLBANK TOWER GARDENS
HOWI CK PLACE ROW WESTMINSTER Bridge T h a m e s
FRANCIS STREE T THIRLEBY ROAD GREENCOAT PLACE ROCHESTER ROW VINCENT SQUARE ELVERTON ST HORSEFERRY ROAD TUFTON ST THORNEY STREET Lambeth R i v e r Recommended restaurants in the
Victoria PLACE
ST
MONCK ST
GREYCOAT HORSEFERRY RD
GREYCOAT
PAGE STREET
CARLISLE PLACE
WESTMINSTER
SCHOOL PLAYING
MARSHAM STREET
FIELDS
0 metres 500 VAU X HALL B RI D GE R OA D CHAPTER ST REGENCY STREET VINCENT STREET ERASMUS STREET J O H N IS L I P S T R EE T Millbank Pier area are listed and plotted on the map.
0 yards 500 DOUGLAS STREET CAUS T ON ST ATTERBURY ST MIL L B ANK
Pimlico
150 metres /
165 yards
Restaurants see pp296–9 Vauxhall Bridge
1 Cinnamon Club
2 Regency Café
The clock face on the Houses of Parliament For keys to symbols see back flap
74  L ONDON AREA B Y AREA WHITEHALL AND WESTMINSTER  75
Area Map Street-by-Street: Whitehall To Trafalgar Square w Horse Guards Parade PICCADILLY SOUTH BANK
and Westminster
& ST JAMES'S
ceremonially changed
1For easy reference, the sights in each Compared with many capital cities, London has little A mounted guard is & WESTMINSTER T h a m e s
here twice a day.
WHITEHALL
monumental architecture designed to overawe with pomp.
Here, at the historic seat of both the government and of the Dover House, a stately
area are numbered and located on established church, it most closely approaches the broad, stately mansion dating from Locator Map Lambeth
Victoria
1787, now houses the
avenues of Paris, Rome and Madrid. On weekdays the streets are
Scottish Office.
See Central London Map pp14–15
crowded with members of the civil service, as most of their work
an Area Map. To help the visitor, the is based in this area. At weekends, however, it teems mainly 0 . Churchill War Rooms
The meticulously preserved
with tourists, visiting some of London’s most famous sights.
War Rooms were
Winston Churchill’s W H I T E H A L L Earl Haig, the British
map also shows Underground and The Treasury is where headquarters. D O W N I N G S T R E E T World War I chief, was
World War II
sculpted by Alfred
Hardiman in 1936.
the nation’s finances are
mainline train stations. administered. 9 Downing Street
British prime ministers have
Central Hall is a florid example of K I N G C H A R L E S S T R E E T lived here since 1732.
the Beaux Arts style, built in 1911 R I C H M O N D T E R R A C E
as a Methodist meeting hall. In 8 Cenotaph
1946 the first General Assembly of Edwin Lutyens’s
the United Nations was held here. war memorial
dates from 1920.
Stars indicate the sights 4 . Westminster Abbey S T O R E Y ’ S G A T E G R E A T G E O R G E S T R E E T P A R L I A M E N T S T R E E T Richmond House q . Banqueting House
is William Whitfield’s
prize-winning 1980s
The Abbey is London’s oldest
building for the
Inigo Jones designed this elegant
and most important church.
Department
that no visitor should miss. 7 Parliament Square V I C T O R I A E M B A N K M E N T of Health. building, which has a Rubens
ceiling, in 1622.
Statues of famous statesmen, such as Westminster Pier is
Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Winston Churchill a starting point for
and Nelson Mandela, stand here. B R O A D S A N C T U A R Y P A R L I A M E N T S Q U A R E river boat excursions.
The Sanctuary was a medieval safe B R I D G E S T R E E T
place for those escaping the law.
Portcullis House provides offices for
6 St Margaret’s Church Members of Parliament.
Society weddings often take place
here, in Parliament’s church. Boudicca, the British queen who
A locator map shows you where 5 Dean’s Yard S T M A R G A R E T S T R E E T Westminster resisted the Romans, was portrayed
by Thomas Thornycroft in the 1850s.
Westminster
School was
station
you are in relation to surrounding founded here
in 1540.
areas. The area of the Street-by-
Street Map is shown in red. G R E A T C O L L E G E S T R E E T
3 Jewel Tower
1 2 . Houses of
Kings once stored A B I N G D O N S T R E E T 0 metres 100 Parliament and Big Ben
Richard I’s Statue, by their most valuable 0 yards 100 These were designed by
possessions here.
Carlo Marochetti (1860), The Burghers of Calais Key Charles Barry in 1834 when
depicts the 12th-century is a cast of Auguste the Palace of Westminster
A suggested route for a walk Coeur de Lion (Lionheart). Rodin’s original in Paris. Suggested route burned down.
takes in the most attractive and
interesting streets in the area. Street-by-Street Map
2This gives a bird’s-eye view of the heart of each sightseeing
area. The numbering of the sights ties in with the Area Map
and the fuller descriptions on the pages that follow.
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