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About the London Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum history is very interesting - did you know the main facility of the museum, a Victorian iron and glass building, was initially used as a vegetable, fruit and flower market?&nb…
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The Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden is one of the world's most important performing arts venues, home to both the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. The current building is the third theatre on this site, and it has be…
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The National Gallery of London
The National Gallery sits on the north side of Trafalgar Square and holds one of the greatest collections of Western European paintings in the world. Entry is free, and it has been that way since the gallery first opened…
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Chinatown London
London's Chinatown is a compact, colourful neighbourhood centred on Gerrard Street in the West End, just a minute's walk from Leicester Square. It's one of the most visited spots in central London and has been the heart …
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Trafalgar Square in London
Trafalgar Square is the symbolic heart of London and one of the most visited public spaces in the world. Named after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the square was designed by John Nash and built in the 1830s and 1840s.…
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Palace Theater
The Palace Theatre is one of the most striking buildings on Cambridge Circus in London's West End, a grand red-brick and terracotta Victorian building that has been a landmark of London's theatre district since 1891. Th…
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The Ten Bells Spitalfields
The Ten Bells is one of the oldest pubs in London's East End, standing on the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields. It has been serving drinks since at least 1752 and carries some of the darkes…
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Truman Brewery
The Old Truman Brewery is one of London's most important cultural and creative hubs, occupying the site of what was once the largest brewery in the world. It stretches along Brick Lane in the heart of London's East End. …
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The Tabernacle
The Tabernacle is a striking red-brick Victorian building on Powis Square in Notting Hill, originally built as an evangelical church and now serving as one of west London's most vibrant community arts venues. The church…
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Notting Hill Bookshop
The Notting Hill Bookshop is a small, welcoming independent bookstore on Blenheim Crescent that became world-famous after its interior was used as the model for the bookshop in the 1999 film "Notting Hill," starring Hugh…
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Green Park
Green Park is one of London's Royal Parks, a peaceful triangle of mature trees and open grassland sitting between Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly, and Constitution Hill. It's the simplest of the royal parks: no lakes, no f…
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Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile
The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile is a hidden architectural treasure on Duke Street in Mayfair, just off Oxford Street. Most Londoners walk past it every day without knowing it's there. The bu…
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey is one of the most important religious buildings in the English-speaking world and the coronation church of the British monarchy for nearly 1,000 years. The current Gothic church was largely built betw…
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch and one of the most recognized buildings in the world. It has been the administrative headquarters of the monarchy since Queen Victoria moved in o…
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St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral is Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece and one of the most important churches in the world. Its dome, rising 111 metres above Ludgate Hill, has been a defining feature of the London skyline since 1710.…
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Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal residence on the western edge of Kensington Gardens in London, and it has been home to members of the royal family since 1689. It is best known for its links to Queen Victoria, who was born h…
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Seven Dials
Seven Dials is a road junction in London's Covent Garden where seven streets meet around a sundial column. Laid out in the 1690s as a smart residential development, it fell into poverty and notoriety before becoming the …
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Goodwin's Court
Goodwin's Court is a narrow pedestrian alley in London's West End, running between St Martin's Lane and Bedfordbury. It is lined with bow-windowed shopfronts from the Georgian era, a rare survival in a city that has rebu…
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Clement Danes Church
St Clement Danes is a Christopher Wren church standing on its own island in the middle of the Strand in London, close to the Royal Courts of Justice. Gutted by bombing in 1941 and rebuilt in the 1950s, it is now the cent…
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Sherlock Holmes Museum
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a Georgian town house on Baker Street in London, set up as the home of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson. Its door carries the famous number 221B, an address t…
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Monument to the Great Fire of London
The Monument to the Great Fire of London is a 202-foot stone column on Fish Street Hill in the City of London, built to mark the fire of September 1666 that destroyed much of the medieval city. Designed by Christopher Wr…
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Leadenhall Market
Leadenhall Market is a covered Victorian market in the heart of the City of London, with a painted iron and glass roof over a set of lanes lined with shops, pubs and restaurants. It stands on ground that was at the centr…
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Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus is the busy road junction at the heart of London's West End, known for its giant illuminated screens and the winged statue on the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain. It has been a meeting point for Londoners…
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Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is the Victorian bascule and suspension bridge that crosses the River Thames beside the Tower of London in London. Opened in 1894, it was built to carry road traffic across the river without blocking the tal…
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Oxford Circus
Oxford Circus is the crossroads in London's West End where Oxford Street meets Regent Street. It began as part of John Nash's Regent Street scheme in the early 19th century, and today it is one of the city's best known s…
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Leicester Square
Leicester Square is a pedestrian square in the heart of London's West End, known for its cinemas, its film premieres and its constant flow of people. It began as open ground in front of a 17th-century mansion and has bee…
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Old Spitalfields Market
Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market on Brushfield Street in London's East End, where independent traders sell antiques, fashion, art, home accessories and street food. It stands on land with a long history, from …
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Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain
The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain stands at the edge of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End. Its winged bronze-and-aluminium archer is known to everyone as Eros, though he is most likely his brother Anteros. Unveiled …
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London Zoo
London Zoo is the oldest scientific zoo in the world, set on the northern edge of Regent's Park in London. It opened in 1828 as a collection for scientific study and today is home to hundreds of species, which makes it b…
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Primrose Hill
Primrose Hill is a grassy, rounded hill on the northern edge of Regent's Park in London, rising 63 metres above sea level. It is best known for its sweeping view over the city skyline, one of the protected viewpoints of …
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Richmond Park
Richmond Park is the largest of London's Royal Parks, a vast area of grassland, woodland and ponds in the south-west of the city, close to Richmond. It is a National Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Intere…
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Borough Market
Borough Market is a historic food market in Southwark, London, beside London Bridge and the Thames. Locals trace its origins back to 1014, and today it is a busy place to buy British and European specialities and to eat …
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HMS Belfast
HMS Belfast is a Second World War Royal Navy cruiser moored permanently on the River Thames in London, between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. Launched in 1938, she helped support the Normandy landings in 1944 and is now…
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Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of the Southwark diocese, standing beside London Bridge on the south bank of the Thames in London. People have worshipped on this spot for at least a thousand years, and the …
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Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution housed in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London, founded in 1768 under King George III. It is run by artists, stages the long-running Summer Exhibition and sits in one o…
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Harley Street
Harley Street is a long Georgian street in Marylebone, London, known around the world as the address of private medical specialists. Its name has stood for expert medicine for well over a century, and it also turns up in…
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Baker Street tube station
Baker Street tube station in London is one of the oldest stations on the Underground, opened in 1863 on the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground line. It is also the Tube's tribute to Sherlock Holmes, whos…
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Sherlock Holmes statue
The Sherlock Holmes statue stands on Marylebone Road in London, beside Baker Street Underground station, and shows the fictional detective in his deerstalker with a pipe. It is a bronze tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle's fa…
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All Hallows-by-the-Tower
All Hallows-by-the-Tower is a parish church beside the Tower of London in the City of London, founded in 675 and generally described as the oldest church in the City. It has been rebuilt and repaired many times, yet it s…
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Handel & Hendrix in London
Handel & Hendrix in London is a museum at 25 Brook Street in Mayfair, set in the Georgian house where the composer George Frideric Handel lived and worked for decades. Next door at number 23, the guitarist Jimi Hendr…
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Museum of Brands
The Museum of Brands is a small museum on Lancaster Road in Notting Hill, London, that traces more than a century of British consumer life through packaging, advertising and everyday objects. It matters because it shows …
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London Jamme Masjid
London Jamme Masjid is a mosque at 59 Brick Lane in Spitalfields, London, in a building that has served as a Huguenot chapel, a Methodist church, a synagogue and now a mosque. Its changing use traces the waves of newcome…
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Dennis Severs' House
Dennis Severs' House at 18 Folgate Street in Spitalfields, London, is an 18th-century terraced house that its last private owner turned into a living work of art. Instead of a conventional museum, it is a series of rooms…
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Fenton House
Fenton House is a mansion on Hampstead Grove in Hampstead, London, built in 1686 and now cared for by the National Trust. It is known for its collection of early keyboard instruments and for its walled garden, high on th…
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Japan House London
Japan House London is a cultural centre at 67 Kensington High Street in London, set up to introduce visitors to Japanese art, design, food and craft. It is part of a Japanese government initiative with sister venues in S…
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a working West End playhouse in London, and one of the oldest in the city. A theatre has stood on this spot since 1720, and today's building by John Nash is the third-oldest London playhous…
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Queen Mary's Gardens
Queen Mary's Gardens is the rose garden in the Inner Circle of Regent's Park, London, named after the wife of King George V. Opened in the 1930s, it is best known for its huge collection of roses, which sit alongside col…
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Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone
Holy Trinity Church on Marylebone Road in London is a Neo-Classical church designed by Sir John Soane. It was one of the Waterloo churches, paid for with money Parliament set aside to mark Britain's victory over Napoleon…
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Kensington Square
Kensington Square is a garden square in Kensington, London, laid out in the late 17th century and still lined with elegant townhouses of several eras. It is one of the quietest and most characterful corners of the neighb…
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Derry & Toms Building
The Derry & Toms Building is a 1930s Art Deco department store on Kensington High Street in London, famous for the Roof Gardens built on top of it. It was home to the Derry & Toms store until the early 1970s and then bri…
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Wilton's Music Hall
Wilton's Music Hall is a Victorian music hall in Graces Alley, off Wellclose Square in London's East End, and is widely described as the world's oldest surviving grand music hall. It matters because it kept much of its o…
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St George in the East
St George in the East is a church in London's East End, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and built between 1714 and 1729. It is one of six London churches by Hawksmoor, and its heavy Portland stone tower and corner turrets…
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The Prospect of Whitby
The Prospect of Whitby is a historic riverside pub on Wapping Wall in London's East End, and it claims to be the oldest tavern on the Thames, with origins around 1520. It stands among the old docklands warehouses, where …
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Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill is a steep street and viewpoint in Richmond, London, looking out over Petersham Meadows and a bend of the River Thames. It is one of the best-known views in the capital, and it was protected by an Act of Pa…
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St Dunstan in the East
St Dunstan in the East is a ruined medieval church in the City of London, a short walk from the Tower of London. Bombed in the Second World War and never rebuilt as a church, it now serves as a quiet public garden, with …
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Mansion House
Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, a Palladian building standing at the Bank junction in the heart of the City of London. It has housed the city's civic head since 1752 and still hosts o…
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Bermondsey Beer Mile
The Bermondsey Beer Mile is a stretch of railway arches and nearby units in Bermondsey, London, where independent breweries brew beer and open their taprooms to the public. It is an informal name, not an official trail, …
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Gerrard Street
Gerrard Street is the main street of London's Chinatown, a short, lantern-hung pedestrian street in Soho, in the West End of London. It is lined with Chinese restaurants, bakeries and shops, and it is the best-known addr…
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Garrick Theatre
The Garrick Theatre is a Victorian playhouse on Charing Cross Road in London's West End, opened in 1889 and still staging plays today. It is named after the 18th-century actor David Garrick, and it is one of the older wo…
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Grosvenor Square
Grosvenor Square is a large garden square in Mayfair, London, laid out in the 1720s as one of the city's grandest residential addresses. It later became closely tied to the United States, with a memorial to the Eagle Squ…
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St George's, Hanover Square
St George's, Hanover Square is an early 18th-century parish church in Mayfair, London, famous as the place where fashionable society came to marry. Its columned portico and its long list of society weddings have made it …
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Australian War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner
The Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London honours the Australians who served and died in the First and Second World Wars. It is a curved wall of green-grey granite, inscribed with thousands of Australian …
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London LGBTQ: Detective Mystery
68 min · EN · ES
Places on this quest: Seven Dials · Trafalgar Square in London
London's lights: Explore Monopoly - Oxford Circus to Trafalgar Square
90 min · EN
Places on this quest: Piccadilly Circus · Oxford Circus
Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in West End, London
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Places on this quest: Theatre Royal Haymarket · Garrick Theatre
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