Places of interest in and around SW1 Sloane Square
Pimlico is a London Underground station in Pimlico, City of Westminster. It is on the Victoria Line between Victoria and Vauxhall in Zone 1. The station opened on 14 September 1972 more than a year after the rest of the line had become fully operational. Pimlico station was a late addition to the final section of the Victoria Line between Victoria and Brixton and is the only station on (...)
in central London, England, running between Millbank and Greycoat Place. It is perhaps best known as the site of City of Westminster Magistrates' Court (which until 2006 was called Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court). The ubiquity of the Magistrates' Court in newspaper crime reports means that the road name has wide recognition in the UK (...)
, England, is the mother church of the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales and the Metropolitan Church and Cathedral of the Archbishop of Westminster. The cathedral is located in Victoria, SW1, in the City of Westminster. It is the largest Roman Catholic church in England and Wales (...)
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 clock tower commonly (though incorrectly) known as ''Big Ben'' of the Palace of Westminster found at the other end of Victoria Street (...)
, London. It is 101 metres tall with 29 floors and was completed in 1963. The building has two banks of elevators — the first serving the first up to the fifteenth floor, and the second the fifteenth floor upwards. Firms that currently use Portland House for office space include American Express, TradeDoubler, businesslink.gov.uk, uSwitch, Upmystreet.com and Regus (...)
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 (...)
Seaford House, originally called Sefton House, is one of the grandest surviving aristocratic mansions in London, England. It is the largest of the three detached houses which occupy three corners of Belgrave Square in the exclusive district of Belgravia. Seaford House is a white stucco building with four main stories (...)
The Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) is an internationally-renowned institution and component of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. The RCDS Mission is: :"To prepare senior officers and officials of the United Kingdom and other countries and future leaders from the private and public sectors for high responsibilities in their respective organisations, by developing (...)
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 (...)
