Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Westminster, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 13 sights
Distance 8.7 km
Ascend 146 m
Descend 164 m

Explore Westminster in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in WestminsterIndividual Sights in Westminster

Sight 1: Hyde Park

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Hyde Park @LondonNPC #NationalParkCity / CC BY 2.0

Hyde Park is a 350 acres (140 ha), 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.

Wikipedia: Hyde Park, London (EN), Heritage Website

1653 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 2: Saint Paul's Knightsbridge

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St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition located at 32a Wilton Place in Knightsbridge, London.

Wikipedia: St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge (EN), Website, Heritage Website

539 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Embassy of Norway

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The Embassy of Norway in London at 25 Belgrave Square is the diplomatic mission of Norway in the United Kingdom. The embassy is located on Belgrave Square in a building it has occupied since 1949.

Wikipedia: Embassy of Norway, London (EN), Heritage Website

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Belgrave Square

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Belgrave Square is a large 19th-century garden square in London. It is the centrepiece of Belgravia, and its architecture resembles the original scheme of property contractor Thomas Cubitt who engaged George Basevi for all of the terraces for the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, later the 1st Marquess of Westminster, in the 1820s. Most of the houses were occupied by 1840. The square takes its name from one of the Duke of Westminster's subsidiary titles, Viscount Belgrave. The village and former manor house of Belgrave, Cheshire, were among the rural landholdings associated with the main home and gardens of the senior branch of the family, Eaton Hall. Today, many embassies occupy buildings on all four sides.

Wikipedia: Belgrave Square (EN)

91 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Simón Bolívar

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Simón Bolívar Peter O'Connor aka anemoneprojectors / CC BY-SA 2.0

An outdoor bronze sculpture depicting Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), by Hugo Daini, is located at the south-east corner of Belgrave Square in London, United Kingdom. The statue was unveiled by James Callaghan, then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in 1974.

Wikipedia: Statue of Simón Bolívar, London (EN)

551 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Wellington Arch

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The Wellington Arch, also known as the Constitution Arch or (originally) as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central London, between the corner where Hyde Park meets Green Park. The Arch stands on a large green-space traffic island with crossings for pedestrian access. From its construction (1826–1830) the arch stood in a nearby location, slightly to the east, directly across from Burton's Ionic screen entrance to Hyde Park; it was moved a short distance to its current site at the top of the Constitution Hill road in 1882–1883. The triumphal arch originally supported a colossal equestrian statue of the 1st Duke of Wellington by the sculptor Matthew Cotes Wyatt, acquiring its name as a result. Peace descending on the Quadriga of War by sculptor Adrian Jones, a bronze of the Goddess of Victory Nike riding a quadriga, has surmounted the arch since 1912.

Wikipedia: Wellington Arch (EN), Heritage Website

874 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 7: Embassy of Saudi Arabia

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The Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London is the diplomatic mission of Saudi Arabia in the United Kingdom. Saudi Arabia also maintains a Defence Attaché's Office at 26 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, a Diplomatic Office of the Cultural Bureau at 630 Chiswick High Road, Gunnersbury, a Medical Section at 60 Queen Anne Street, Marylebone, a Commercial Section at 15/16 Queen Street, Mayfair, an Islamic Affairs Section at 2nd Floor, Park Lorne, 111 Park Road, Lisson Grove, and an Information Section at 18 Seymour Street, Marylebone.

Wikipedia: Embassy of Saudi Arabia, London (EN), Heritage Website

1290 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 8: Lock & Co

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Lock & Co

Lock & Co. Hatters is the world's oldest hat shop, the world's 34th oldest family-owned business and is a Royal warrant holder. Its shop is located at 6 St James's Street, London, and is a Grade II* listed building.

Wikipedia: James Lock & Co. (EN), Website, Heritage Website

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Bridgewater House

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Bridgewater House Shakespearesmonkey / CC BY 2.0

Bridgewater House is a townhouse located at 14 Cleveland Row in the St James's area of London, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

Wikipedia: Bridgewater House, Westminster (EN), Heritage Website

617 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: The Mall

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The Mall Cpl Stephen Harvey / OGL v1.0

The Mall is a ceremonial route and roadway in the City of Westminster, central London, that travels 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) between Buckingham Palace at its western end and Trafalgar Square via Admiralty Arch to the east. Along the north side of The Mall is green space and St. James's Palace with other official buildings, and to the south is St James's Park. Near the east end at Trafalgar Square and Whitehall it is met by Horse Guards Road and Spring Gardens, near the west end at the Victoria Memorial it is met by the Constitution Hill roadway and the Spur Road to the street of Buckingham Gate. It is closed to traffic on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and on ceremonial occasions.

Wikipedia: The Mall, London (EN)

508 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Florence Nightingale the 'Lady with the Lamp'

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Florence Nightingale the 'Lady with the Lamp'

The statue of Florence Nightingale is an outdoor Grade II-listed sculpture in London, United Kingdom. It was sculpted in 1915 by Arthur George Walker, and is a subsidiary part of the Guards Crimean War Memorial.

Wikipedia: Statue of Florence Nightingale, London (EN)

703 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: St James's Square Gardens

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St James's Square is the only square in the St James's district of the City of Westminster and is a garden square. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential streets in London. It now has headquarters of a number of well-known businesses, including BP and Rio Tinto Group; four private members' clubs, the East India Club, the Naval and Military Club, the Canning Club, and the Army and Navy Club; the High Commission of Cyprus; the London Library; and global think tank and peace-promoter Chatham House.

Wikipedia: St James's Square (EN)

1535 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 13: Victoria Embankment Gardens

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The Victoria Embankment Gardens are a series of gardens on the north side of the River Thames between Blackfriars Bridge and Westminster Bridge in London.

Wikipedia: Victoria Embankment Gardens (EN)

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