Tourist Attraction:Historic Sites

TOURIST ATTRACTION - HISTORIC PLACES TO VISIT

SOME HISTOIC PLACES TO VISIT IN LONDON

Nearest tube: Westminister

Kensington Palace
Nearest tube: High Street Kensington/Queensway/Notting Hill Gate

Royal collection : www.royalcollection.org.uk ; Tel: 0207-766-7300

Nearest Tube is Victoria Park, Hyde Park Corner

Tourist attraction with maps

Key bus routes showing landmarks in London
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/central_bus_map.pdf

Visitors guide to travelling around London
Central London tourist attractions and bus maps
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1118.aspx

St Paul’s Cathedral
Tube: St Pauls

Lord's Tour and MCC Museum
Lord's Cricket Ground, London, NW8 8QN
The tour include the Long Room, Player's Gate and Dressing Rooms in the Pavilion, the MCC museum where the famous Ashes Urn is on display. You may have to make an appointment for your visit.
T: 020 7616 8656

http://www.lords.org/history/mcc-museum/
How to get to Lord's Tour and MCC Museum http://www.lords.org/findus.html

Lee Valley Park Farms: Hayes Hill and Holyfield Hall
Stubbings Hall Lane Crooked Mile, Waltham Abbey, EN9 9EG
On Hayes hill farm you can see different animals and then to Holyfield Hall Farm to see how dairy cows are being milked.

London Wetland Centre
Queen Elizabeth Walk Barnes, London, SW13 9WT
Beautiful wildlife including Bitterns, Kingfishers and a colony of endangered Water voles.

Shakespeare's Globe Exhibtion and Tour
New Globe Walk Bankside, London, SE1 9DT
The tour explores the life of Shakespeare, the London where he lived, and the theatre for which he wrote.

Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience
64-66 Tooley Street London Bridge, London, SE1 2TF
Learn how life was for the people in war torn Britain, during WWII. How they were evacuated, the food & clothes and rationing they ate, weddings, bomb disposal etc --

The Royal Observatory & Meridian Line - home of Greenwich Mean Time and Meridian Line.

Tel: 0208 312 65 65 Nearest Tube DLR : CUTTY SARK

The Ranger's House & the Wernher Collection - numerous collection of art on displa, was once the oficial residence of the Ranger of Grenwich Park

Tel: 0208-853-0035

Nearest Tube: DLR Cutty Sark for Maritie Greenwich.

Sommerset House:

Nearest Tube: Covent Garden/Embankment/Temple

Southwark’s Cathedral
Tube: London Bridge/Monument

Royal Mews: see cermonial coaches, carriage and state vehicles

Westminster Bridge & House of Parliament- cruise the River Thames and see places like the Westminster Bridge House of parliament with the River Thames Services - www.westminsterpier.co.uk

0207-7930-4097
Westminster abbey

Tube: St James Park/Westminster

Westminster Cathedral

Tube: Victoria

Tourist Attraction

Cuttysark Trust, 2 Greenwich church st. London 0208-858-2698,

Shakespeares Globe
21 New Globe, London, 0207-790-21400

Battersea Park Children's Zoo
Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ

Visit Battersea Park Children’s Zoo- see the animals on the farm : see the monkeys, lemurs, otters and meerkats. Children play area - the Krazy Kids play area and relax with light refreshments in The Lemon Tree Café.

Somerset House Trust
Somerset House, Strand, London 0207-836 8686

Cobham Hall
Cobham, Cobham, DA12 3BL
A 17th-century mansion in Kent on a 150 acres of grounds landscaped by Humphrey Repton.

Thames Barrier Learning Centre
Thames Barrier Visitors Centre, 1 Unit Way, London 0208-305 4188

Legoland Windsor
Winkfield Road, Windsor, SL4 4AY
Popular sites include Land of the Vikings, the brand new Longboat Invader & the mighty Vikings’ River Splash! interactive rides & attractions

Historic Sites

The Old Royal Naval College - A masterpiece of British architecture, the college features the beautiful painted hall and chapel of St Peter adn St Paul. - 0208-269-4747 Nearest Tube : Cutty Sark

City Cruises
Cherry Garden Pier, Cherry Garden Street, London, SE16
See London on a boat - Sails from Westminster, Waterloo, Tower Bridge and Greenwich

The London Dungeon, 28-38 Tooley St. London 0207-403-7221

Princes Regeneration Trust www.princes-regeneration.org.uk

The Clergy House, Mark St. London 0207-033-2580

Tower Bridge Exhibition
Tower Bridge, London

The Tower of London -0870-756-6060

Queen's House - First opened by Queen Anne of Denmark, displays the National Maritime Museum's fine art collection.

Tel: 0208-312 6565 Nearest Tube : DLR - Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich

Peter Harrison Planetarium - displays the latest digital laser projector and images from recent space missions. Tel: 0208-858-4422 Nearest Tube is - DLR : Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich

How to get there- click the Journey Planner and chose how to travel: by bus, train, underground etc.

Excel London - the largest exhibition and conference venue in London

1 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, Custom House E16; www.excel-london.co.uk

Nearest Tube: DLR : Custom House

Popular Tourist Departmental Stores/Specialy stores

Harrods: www.harrods.com, 81 -135 Brompton Rd, SW1, Tube: kNIGHTSBRIDGE

Harvey Nichols - high fashion shop, great food hall, perfume and jewellery department: www.harveynichols.com , 109 Knightsbridge SW1, Tube: Knightsbridge

John Lewis: 278-306 Oxford St W1, Tube Oxford Circus,www.johnlewis.co.uk , buy quality household goods

Marks and Spencer- 458 Oxford St, Tube: Marble Arch- best underwear adn wide range of fashion goods:

Daisy & Tom 181-3 Sloane St SW3 Tube: Sloane Square - Kids clothes, shoes and toys

Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop: 1st Floor, 44 The Market, Covent Garden WC2 Tube: Covent Garden- toy shop

Liberty: www.liberty-of-london.com 210-20 Regent St. Tube: Oxford Circus

Fornum & Mason : www.fortnumandmason.co.uk 181 Piccadily W1- Fashion and food halls. Tube : Piccadily Circus

Peter Jones : Slone Square SW1

Hamleys - 188-96 Regent St W1 Tube : Oxford Cicrus

Selfridges: 400 Oxford St W1 Tube : Bond St.

Taylor of Old Bond St. : 74 Jermyn St. SW1 Tube: Green Park - well groomed men accessories like razor, lavender, shaving brush etc

Other Places of interest to visit

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery

Cleopatra's Needle

Royal National Theatre

The Temple

Sion College and Libray

Blackfriars Bridge

Tate Modern Gallery

Cardinal's Wharf

Southward Bridge

Anchor Tavern

Southwark Cathedral

Fishmongers Hall

The Monument

Old Billingsgate

Custom House

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