Places to visit in Westminster, London
Parks, markets and landmarks in Westminster, London.
- Westminster Abbey · Heritage
Collegiate church and coronation church beside Parliament.
- Houses of Parliament · Landmark
Palace of Westminster, home of the UK Parliament.
- National Gallery · Culture
Art museum on Trafalgar Square.
- London Eye · Landmark
Cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank.
- Trafalgar Square · Landmark
Public square with Nelson's Column.
- Covent Garden · Shopping
Historic market and shopping district.
- Southbank Centre · Culture
Arts complex including the Royal Festival Hall.
- Albert Memorial
· Historic
The Albert Memorial is a Gothic Revival ciborium in Kensington Gardens, London, designed and dedicated to the memory of Prince Albert of Great Britain. Located directly north of the Royal Albert Hall, it was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, who died in 1861. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, it takes the form of an ornate canopy or pavilion 176 feet (54 m) tall over the high altar of a church, sheltering a statue of the prince facing south. It took over ten years to complete, the £120,000 cost met by public subscription.
- Apsley House · Culture
Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing towards the large traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the Wellington Arch. It is a Grade I listed building.
- Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
· Culture
The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, England, was the first stage of a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver and publisher John Boydell in an effort to foster a school of British history painting. In addition to the establishment of the gallery, Boydell planned to produce an illustrated edition of William Shakespeare's plays and a folio of prints based upon a series of paintings by different contemporary painters. During the 1790s the London gallery that showed the original paintings emerged as the project's most popular element.
- Burton’s Court
· Parks
park in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom
- Dunhill Museum & Archive · Culture
- Fortius Clinic · Culture
- Green Park
· Parks
The Green Park, one of the Royal Parks of London, is in the City of Westminster, Central London. Green Park is to the north of the gardens and semi-circular forecourt of Buckingham Palace, across Constitution Hill road. The park is in the middle of a near-continuous chain of green spaces in Westminster that includes St James's Park, Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens. To the northeast of Green Park is the district of St James's including, Lancaster House, Clarence House, and St James's Palace.
- Hyde Park · Parks
Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140-hectare), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park. Hyde Park is divided by the Serpentine and the Long Water lakes.
- King's Gallery · Culture
the main public art gallery of Buckingham Palace
- London Eye Hospital · Culture
- London Lock Hospital
· Culture
former hospital in London
- Raoul Wallenberg Monument · Historic
- Royal Brompton Hospital · Culture
UK public sector hospital in London, England
- Royal Collection · Culture
art collection of the British royal family spread among more than thirteen royal residences and former residences
- Royal Hospital Chelsea · Culture
retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Royal Parks of London · Parks
lands originally owned by the monarchy of the United Kingdom
- Serpentine Galleries
· Culture
a complex of two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, in the center of London. These are the Serpentine Gallery and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
- Smythson Stationery Museum · Culture
- St James Workhouse · Culture
- St James's Park
· Parks
St James's Park is a 23-hectare (57-acre) urban park in the City of Westminster, central London. A Royal Park, it is at the southernmost end of the St James's area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less, now the site of St James's Palace. The area was initially enclosed for a deer park near the Palace of Whitehall for King Henry VIII in the 1530s. It is the most easterly of a near-continuous chain of public parks that includes Green Park, Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens.
- Statue of John Henry Newman · Historic
The statue of John Henry Newman is an outdoor sculpture of the English cardinal, oratorian, and theologian of the same name by Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud, installed outside Brompton Oratory in London, United Kingdom.
- The Brown Collection · Culture
- The Fleming Collection · Culture
museum in London
- The Photographers' Gallery · Culture
- Twist Museum · Culture
- UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre · Culture
hospital in England
- Victoria Memorial · Historic
memorial to Queen Victoria in London, England, UK
- Victoria and Albert Museum · Culture
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
- Albion Jeune · Landmark
- Alison Jacques Gallery · Landmark
- Beaux Arts · Landmark
- Handel & Hendrix · Culture
- London Duck Tours · Landmark
- Pontone Gallery · Landmark
- South Bank Book Market · Landmark
- Topolski Century · Culture
- Zari Gallery · Landmark
- London Zoo · Family
Scientific zoo in the north of Regent's Park.
- Hyde Park · Parks
Royal park in central London.
- Regent's Park · Parks
Royal park with gardens, a lake and London Zoo.