Places of interest in and around W1 Oxford Street
Charing Cross tube station is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster with entrances located in Trafalgar Square and Strand. The station is served by the Northern and Bakerloo lines and provides an interchange with the National Rail network at Charing Cross station (...)
St Martin-in-the-Fields is an Anglican church at the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. Its patron is Saint Martin of Tours. (...)
London's National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. The collection belongs to the British public and entry to the main collection is free, although there are charges for entry to special exhibitions (...)
Trafalgar Studios is a West End theatre in Whitehall in the City of Westminster. Also known as Trafalgar Studios at the Whitehall Theatre in honour of its former incarnation, the building consists of two intimate theatres designed by architects Tim Foster and John Muir (...)
:''For other uses, see Trafalgar Square (disambiguation).'' . Trafalgar Square is a square in London that commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars. The original name was to have been "King William the Fourth's Square", but George Ledwell Taylor suggested the name "Trafalgar Square" (...)
Chester Terrace is a street in Camden, London, England. At each end there is a Corinthian arch bearing at the top the street name in large lettering on a blue background, probably the largest street signs in London. Cars can enter Chester Terrace only from Regents Park "Outer Circle" road, by foot it can also be reached from Albany Street. (...)
to receive a Royal Charter. It was founded in 1518 and is one of the most active of all medical professional organisations. Since the College's creation as the College of Physicians (it acquired the "Royal" prefix in 1674) by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518, it has engaged in a wide range of activities dedicated to its overall aim of upholding and improving standards of medical (...)
Great Portland Street is a London Underground station near Regent's Park. It is between Baker Street and Euston Square on the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between "Bishop's Road" (now Paddington Hammersmith & City Line) and "Farringdon (...)
district of London, England. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Dukes of Westminster, and takes its name from their surname, "Grosvenor". Sir Richard Grosvenor, obtained a licence to develop Grosvenor Square and the surrounding streets in 1710, and development is believed to have commenced in around 1721 (...)
Park Lane is a major road (designated A4202) in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Originally a country lane, it became a fashionable residential address from the eighteenth century onwards, with several large mansions such as the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor House and the Holford family's Dorchester House (...)
The Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile (Ukrainian: ''УКРÐЇÐСЬКРКÐТОЛИЦЬКРКÐТЕДРР"ПРЕСВ. СКИТÐЛЬЧОЇ РОДИÐИ" y Лондоні, ÐпоÑтольÑький екзархат у Великобританії'') is the cathedral of the Ukrainain Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate in Great Britain. [http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/ugcc_structure/structure/] It is the named for the Holy Family, during their flight into Egypt (...)
Bond Street tube station is a London Underground station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street. The entrance to the station is inside a shopping arcade on Oxford Street. The station is on the Central Line between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus and on the Jubilee Line, between Baker Street and Green Park. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. (...)
Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), was a station of the London Underground's Piccadilly Line which closed in 1932. During World War II it was used as an air-raid shelter, notably by Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet. It is now disused. Down Street station lies between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line (...)
located to the south of Hyde Park in central London. The arch, and Marble Arch close by, were both planned in 1825 by George IV to commemorate Britain's victories in the Napoleonic Wars. The Wellington Arch was also conceived as an outer gateway to Constitution Hill and therefore a grand entrance into central London from the west (...)
The Royal Artillery Memorial is a large stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London dedicated to casualties in the British Royal Regiment of Artillery in World War I. Designed by Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934) and dedicated in 1925, the memorial is in the form of a giant sculpture of a howitzer upon a large plinth of Portland stone, with stone reliefs depicting the reality of (...)
__NOTOC__ The Lanesborough is a prestigious 5-star hotel on Hyde Park Corner in Knightsbridge, central London (postcode SW1), England. The hotel is part of the [http://www.starwoodhotels.com/stregis/ St Regis Hotel & Resorts] chain, owned by the American company Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. The Lanesborough does not participate in the Starwood Preferred Guest program (...)
The British Museum in London, England is a museum of human history and culture. Its collections, which number more than 13 million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present (...)
The Hospital is a a private members club and creative arts venue, which houses a music studio and art gallery. It is in Endell Street, Covent Garden, London on the site of an 18th Century hospital. (...)
station in Covent Garden. It is on the Piccadilly Line between Leicester Square and Holborn. The station is on the corner of Long Acre and James Street. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. Covent Garden station is one of the few stations in Central London for which platform access is only by lift or stairs (...)
in the West End of London near Covent Garden where seven streets converge to form a roundabout, at the centre of which is a pillar bearing six (not seven) sundials. The term also refers informally to the immediate surrounding area. (...)
The New London Theatre is a West End theatre located on the corners of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden. (...)
