Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #12 in London, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 5.4 km
Ascend 82 m
Descend 76 m

Experience London in United Kingdom in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in LondonIndividual Sights in London

Sight 1: Victoria Tower Gardens

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Victoria Tower Gardens Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

Victoria Tower Gardens is a public park along the north bank of the River Thames in London, adjacent to the Victoria Tower, at the south-western corner of the Palace of Westminster. The park, extends southwards from the Palace to Lambeth Bridge, between Millbank and the river. It forms part of the Thames Embankment.

Wikipedia: Victoria Tower Gardens (EN), Website

216 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial

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The Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial is a memorial in London to Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel, two of the foremost British suffragettes. It stands at the entrance to Victoria Tower Gardens, south of Victoria Tower at the southwest corner of the Palace of Westminster. Its main feature is a bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst by Arthur George Walker, unveiled in 1930. In 1958 the statue was relocated to its current site and the bronze reliefs commemorating Christabel Pankhurst were added.

Wikipedia: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial (EN)

198 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: College Green

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College Green is a public park in the City of Westminster in Central London. It is east of Westminster Abbey including Westminster Abbey Gardens and across a road from the gardens of the Houses of Parliament. The gardens are not enclosed and are accessible at all times. For many months of 2019, during the Brexit deadlock, it exclusively hosted TV broadcasts and radio and media interviews.

Wikipedia: College Green, London (EN)

12 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Knife Edge Two Piece

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Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 is an abstract bronze sculpture by Henry Moore. It is one of Moore's earliest sculptures in two pieces, a mode that he started to adopt in 1959. Its form was inspired by the shape of a bone fragment. Moore created the sculpture from an edition of 10 working models in 1962; these working models are now in public collections. Moore created four full-size casts between 1962 and 1965, with one retained by him. The three casts are on public display on College Green in Westminster, London; Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver; and the garden at Kykuit, the house of the Rockefeller family in Tarrytown, New York. Moore's own cast is on display at his former studio and estate, 'Hoglands' in Perry Green, Hertfordshire in southern England. A similar work, Mirror Knife Edge 1977, is displayed at the entrance to I. M. Pei's east wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Westminster cast was donated by Moore through the Contemporary Art Society to what he believed was the City of London, but its actual ownership was undetermined for many years. The Westminster cast subsequently fell into disrepair, and was restored in 2013 after it became part of the British Parliamentary Art Collection; it was granted a Grade II* listing in January 2016.

Wikipedia: Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 (EN)

480 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: St Matthew's Church

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St Matthew's Church, Westminster, is an Anglican church in Westminster, London. Located in the heart of the capital, close to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Church House, St Matthew's has been closely associated with the recovery of the Catholic heritage of the Church of England from its early days. One of the foremost leaders of that movement, Frank Weston, Bishop of Zanzibar, served at St Matthew's from 1896–1898.

Wikipedia: St Matthew's Church, Westminster (EN), Website, Heritage Website

505 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: St Stephen

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The Church of St Stephen in Rochester Row, London, is a grade II* listed building.

Wikipedia: St Stephen's Church, Rochester Row (EN), Website, Heritage Website

353 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Westminster Cathedral

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Westminster Cathedral

Westminster Cathedral, formally the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, is the largest Roman Catholic church in England and Wales and the seat of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.

Wikipedia: Westminster Cathedral (EN), Website, Heritage Website

319 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Little Ben

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Little Ben is a cast iron miniature clock tower, situated at the intersection of Vauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria Street, in Westminster, central London, close to the approach to Victoria station. In design it mimics the famous clock tower colloquially known as Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster, found at the other end of Victoria Street.

Wikipedia: Little Ben (EN)

133 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Apollo Victoria Theatre

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Apollo Victoria Theatre

The Apollo Victoria Theatre is a West End theatre on Wilton Road in the Westminster district of London, across from London Victoria Station. Opened in 1930 as a cinema and variety theatre, the Apollo Victoria became a venue for musical theatre, beginning with The Sound of Music in 1981, and including the long-running Starlight Express, from 1984 to 2002. The theatre is currently the home of the musical Wicked, which has played at the venue since 27 September 2006.

Wikipedia: Apollo Victoria Theatre (EN), Website

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Victoria Palace Theatre

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The Victoria Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster. The theatre was designed by Frank Matcham in 1911 and was the last London theatre he designed before his retirement. The building was designated as a Grade II* listed building by Historic England in 1972. It has been the west end home of the musical "Hamilton" since 2017.

Wikipedia: Victoria Palace Theatre (EN), Website, Heritage Website

906 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 11: Eaton Square

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Eaton Square is a rectangular, residential garden square in London's Belgravia district. It is the largest square in London. It is one of the three squares built by the landowning Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia in the 19th century that are named after places in Cheshire — in this case Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor country house. It is larger but less grand than the central feature of the district, Belgrave Square, and both larger and grander than Chester Square. The first block was laid out by Thomas Cubitt from 1827. In 2016 it was named as the "Most Expensive Place to Buy Property in Britain", with a full terraced house costing on average £17 million — many of such town houses have been converted, within the same, protected structures, into upmarket apartments.

Wikipedia: Eaton Square (EN)

395 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: St Michael's Church

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The Church of St Michael is a Church of England parish church on Chester Square in the Belgravia district of West London. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since February 1958.

Wikipedia: St Michael's Church, Chester Square (EN), Website, Heritage Website

667 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 13: Royal Court Theatre

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The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, London, England. In 1956 it was acquired by and remains the home of the English Stage Company, which is known for its contributions to contemporary theatre and won the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities in 1999.

Wikipedia: Royal Court Theatre (EN), Website

371 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: St Mary's Bourne Street

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St Mary's, Bourne Street, is an Anglican church on Bourne Street near Sloane Square in London. It was built 'quickly and cheaply' in 1874 by Robert Jewell Withers, with the intention of providing ministry to the poor living in the nearby slums of Pimlico.

Wikipedia: St Mary's, Bourne Street (EN), Website, Heritage Website

630 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 15: St Barnabas

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The Church of St Barnabas is a Church of England parish church in Pimlico, London. It is a Grade I listed building. The church is noted for its Anglo-Catholic tradition, and it "was the first church built in England where the ideals and beliefs of what came to be known as Anglo-Catholic movement were embodied in its architecture and liturgy".

Wikipedia: Church of St Barnabas, Pimlico (EN), Website, Heritage Website

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