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Architecture

Earl's Court Exhibition Centre : Warwick Road London England UK SW5 9TA 44 (0) 20 7385 1200

Houses of Parliament : Palace of Westminster, Paliament Square London England SW1A 0AA 44 (0) 20 7219 4272

Jewel Tower : Abingdon Street London England UK SW1P 3JX 44 (0) 20 7222 2219

Oxo Tower Wharf : Bargehouse Street London EN SE1 9PH 44 (0) 20 7401 2255

Wellington Arch : Hyde Park Corner London England UK W1J 7JZ 44 (0) 20 7930 2726

30 St Mary Axe (Swiss Re Building) : 30 St. Mary Axe, City of London London EN EC3A

Arenas

Lord's Cricket Ground : St. John's Wood Road London

Walthamstow : Chingford Road London England UK E4 8SJ 44 (0) 20 8498 3300

Twickenham : Rugby Road London England UK 44 (0) 870 405 2001

Wembley Arena : Stadium Way London England UK HA9 0DW 44 (0) 20 8902 8833

Wembley Stadium : Empire Way Outer London Greater London England HA9 0WS

Bridges

London Bridge : between the City of London and Southwark

Millenium Bridge : the City on the north side of the Thames (St. Paul's Cathedral) to Bankside to the south (Tate Modern)

Westminster Bridge : central London

Bodies of Water

Thames Over 135 miles and 44 lochs, passing numerous historic sights.

Walbrook River An important feature of the Roman settlement.

Castles

Banqueting House : Whitehall London England

Buckingham Palace : The Visitor Office, Buckingham Palace London England SW1A 1AA 44 (0) 20 7839 1377

Kensington Palace : Kensington Gardens London England W8 4PX 44 (0) 20 7937 9561

Lambeth Palace :Lambeth Palace Road London England UK SE1 7JU

Osterley House : Jersey Road London England UK TW7 4RB 44 (0) 20 8232 5080

Queen's House : Tower of London, Tower Hill London England EC3N 4AB

St. James' Palace : St. James Palace, The Mall London

Somerset House : The Strand London England UK WC2R 1LA 44 (0) 20 7845 4600

Spencer House : 27 St James's Place London England UK SW1A 1NR 44 (0) 20 7499 8620

Westminster Palace : Houses of Parliament, 44 (0) 20 7219 4272

White Tower : Tower of London, Tower Hill London England EC3N 4AB

Winchester Palace Ruins : South bank London

Cemeteries

Highgate (Karl Marx, Douglas Adams and more) : Swain's Lane; Archway Tube Station

Cultural Venues

Barbican Centre (theatre, music, film, art and design) : Silk Street London England UK EC2Y 8DS 44 (0) 20 7638 8891

Districts

Baker Street (home of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes) :

Brixton (Afro-Caribbean community) : in the borough of Lambeth

Camden (often associated with Jack the Ripper through Walter Sickert`s art) : north of the city centre

Canary Wharf (shops, restaurants, bars, theatres, hotels) : One Canada Square Canary Wharf

Chinatown : Wardour Street, Gerrard Street and Lisle Street

Covent Garden (trendy boutiques, markets, shops) : Covent Garden tube station

East End (Jack the Ripper, the Krays brothers) : East end of central London

Lambeth (London Eye, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Palace, Waterloo station) : south bank of the Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament

Hammersmith : west London

Piccadilly Circus (shopping, pubs, dancing) : Regent Street, Piccadilly, Shaftesbury Avenue and Haymarket

Soho (TV and Media production, nightclubs) : Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street

White chapel (Jack the Ripper) : East End

Historic Sites

Big Ben (Actually, this is not the clock on the Parliament buildings but in fact is the large bell within the tower, behind the clock) :Palace of Westminster London England

Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula (Church of St. Peter in Chains, Henry VII) : Tower of London London England EC3N 4AB 44 (0) 20 7709 0765

Chapel of St. John the Evangelist (the oldest church in the city) : Tower of London, Tower Hill London

Cutty Sark (first sailed November 22, 1869) : 2 Greenwich Church St London

Garden Tower (prison and possible murder site of thirteen year old King Edward V and brother Richard) : Tower of London London England EC3N 4AB 44 (0) 20 7709 0765

Tower Green (private execution site reserved for royalty, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey) : Tower of London London England EC3N 4AB 44 (0) 20 7709 0765

Tower Hill (One of the oldest settlements, dating to the Bronze Age, and center of the Roman settlement destroyed by Queen Boudica in the first century. Public executions including Thomas More in 1535) : Tower of London London England EC3N 4AB 44 (0) 20 7709 0765

Tower of London (1078 AD) : Tower of London, Tower Hill London England EC3N 4AB 44 (0) 20 7709 0765

Queen's House (1530; Queen Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey) : Tower of London, Tower Hill London England EC3N 4AB

Royal Armouries : Tower of London, Tower Hill London England EC3N 4AB

Salt Tower (1235 AD, many inscriptions carved into its walls) : Tower of London, Tower Hill London

Wakefield Tower (1471 AD) : Tower of London, Tower Hill London

White Tower (1078 AD) : Tower of London, Tower Hill London England EC3N 4AB

William Wallace Execution Site : Charterhouse Street

Observation

Parliament Hill : 44 (0) 20 7485 4491

Royal Observatory in Greenwich : London England UK SE10 9NF 44 (0) 20 8858 4422

Monuments

Boudica Memorial (Queen Boudica and her daughters fought Roman occupation in the first century) : Westminster Bridge Rd

Golden Boy of Pye Corner (commemorating the Great Fire of 1666) : Giltspur Street and Cock Lane London England EC1

Marble Arch : Oxford Street London

Museums

Bank of England Museum : Bartholomew Lane London England UK EC2R 8AH 44 (0) 20 7601 3985

British Museum : Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG 44 (0) 20 7323 8000

British Red Cross Museum : 9 Grosvenor Crescent London England UK SW1X 7EJ 44 (0) 20 7201 5153

Churchill Museum : King Charles Street London England UK SW1A 2AQ 44 (0) 20 7930 6961

Clink Prison : 1 Clink St. London EN SE1 9DG 44 (0) 20 7403 0900

Design Museum : Shad Thames London England UK SE1 2YD 44 (0) 870 833 9955

Florence Nightingale Museum : 2 Lambeth Palace Rd. London EN SE1 7EW 44 (0) 20 7620 0374

Geffrye Museum : Kingsland Road London England UK E2 8EA 44 (0) 20 7739 9893

Golden Hinde : St. Mary Overie Dock, Cathedral Street London EN SE1 9DE 44 (0) 20 7403 0123

Imperial War Museum : Lambeth Road London England UK SE1 6HZ 44 (0) 20 7416 5320

London Canal Museum : 12-13 New Wharf Road London England UK N1 9RT 44 (0) 20 7713 0836

London Dungeon : 28-34 Tooley Street London England UK SE1 2SZ 44 (0) 20 7403 7221

Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum : Marylebone Road London NW1 5LR 44 (0) 20 7935 6861

Museum of Childhood : Cambridge Heath Road London England UK E2 9PA 44 (0) 20 8983 5200

Museum in Docklands : West India Quay London UK E14 4AL 44 (0) 870 444 3856

Museum of London : Museum of London, London Wall London England EC2Y 5HN 44 (0) 870 444 3852

Natural History Museum : Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. 44 (0)20 7942 5000

National Maritime Museum : Romney Road Greenwich, London England SE10 9NF 44 (0) 20 8858 4422

Petrie Museum : University College London, Malet Place London England UK WC1E 6BT 44 (0) 20 7679 2884

Royal Air Force Museum : Grahame Park Way London England UK NW9 5LL 44 (0) 20 8205 2266

Science Museum : Exhibition Road London England UK SW7 2DD 44 (0) 870 870 4868

Sherlock Holmes Museum : 221b Baker Street London England NW1 6XE 44 (0) 20 7935 8866

Theatre Museum : 1e Tavistock Street London England UK WC2E 7PR 44 (0) 20 7943 4700

Transport Museum : Covent Garden London England 44 (0) 20 7379 6344

Victoria & Albert Museum : Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road London England SW7 2RL 44 (0) 20 7942 2000

Waterloo Barracks : Tower of London, Tower Hill London England EC3N 4AB

Parks & Gardens

Gunnersbury Park : Pope's Lane London England UK W5 4AA

Hyde Park : Hyde Park, London W2 2UH 44 (0) 20 7298 2100

Jubilee Gardens : Belvedere Rd. London EN SE1

London Wetland Centre : Queen Elizabeth's Walk London England UK SW13 9WT 44 (0) 20 8409 4400

Royal Botanic Gardens : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew London England UK TW9 3AB 44 (0) 20 8332 5000

St. James Park : east of Buckingham Palace

Religious Sites

Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula : Tower of London London England EC3N 4AB 44 (0) 20 7709 0765

Neasden Temple : 105-119 Brentfield Road London England UK NW10 8LD 44 (0) 20 8965 2651

Southwark Cathedral : London Bridge London England UK SE1 9DA 44 (0) 20 7367 6700

St. Martin-in-the-fields : St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square London England WC2N 4JJ 44 (0) 20 7766 1100

St. Mary-Le-Bow : Cheapside London EN EC2V 6AU 44 (0) 20 7248 5139

St. Paul's Cathedral : Ludgate Hill London England EC4 44 (0) 20 7236 4128

Temple Church (Knights Templar) : Middle Temple Lane London EN 44 (0) 20 7353 3470

Westminster Abbey : Westminster Abbey London England SW1P 3PA

Westminster Cathedral : Cathedral Clergy House, 42 Francis Street London England SW1P 1QW 44 (0) 20 7798 9055