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London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in southeastern England, 50 miles upstream from its estuary with the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Londinium was founded by the Romans. The City of London, London's ancient core − an area of just 1.12 square miles and colloquially known as the Square Mile − retains its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster is also an Inner London borough holding city status. Greater London is governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. London is a leading global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, ...
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  • 1. Tower of London London
    The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. The castle was used as a prison from 1100 until 1952 , although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the T...
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  • 2. Royal Observatory Greenwich London
    The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames. It played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known for the fact that the prime meridian passes through it, and thereby gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time. The ROG has the IAU observatory code of 000, the first in the list. ROG, the National Maritime Museum, the Queen's House and Cutty Sark are collectively designated Royal Museums Greenwich.The observatory was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August. The site was chosen by Sir Christopher Wren. At that time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal, to serve as the director of the observatory and to apply himself with the mo...
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  • 3. Wallace Collection London
    The Wallace Collection is an art collection in London open to the public, housed at Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It comprises an extensive collection of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with important holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms and armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 30 galleries. It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford , who left both it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace , whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The collection opened to permanent public view in 1900 in Hertford House, and remains there to this ...
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  • 5. Cutty Sark London
    Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion. The opening of the Suez Canal meant that steamships now enjoyed a much shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895 and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo...
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  • 6. Old Royal Naval College London
    The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London, described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as being of outstanding universal value and reckoned to be the finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles. The site is managed by the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, set up in July 1998 as a registered charity to look after these magnificent buildings and their grounds for the benefit of the nation. The grounds and some of its buildings are open to visitors. The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was design...
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  • 7. Little Venice London
    Richard Wayne Penniman , known as Little Richard, is an American recording artist, singer-songwriter and actor. A pop music and culture icon, Little Richard's most-celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship presaged the rise of rock and roll. His music influenced many other popular music genres, including soul, funk and hip hop and shaped generations of rhythm and blues artists. Little Richard has been honored by many institutions. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Little R...
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  • 8. Royal Mews London
    The Royal Mews is a mews of the British Royal Family. In London the Royal Mews has occupied two main sites, formerly at Charing Cross, and since the 1820s at Buckingham Palace. The site is open to the public throughout much of the year.
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  • 9. Hampstead London
    Hampstead , commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, 4 miles northwest of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. It has some of the most expensive housing in the London area. The village of Hampstead has more millionaires within its boundaries than any other area of the United Kingdom.
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  • 10. Abbey Road London
    Abbey Road most commonly refers to the eleventh studio album by The Beatles. Abbey Road may also refer to: Abbey Road, London, a street in North London, England, United Kingdom for which the album was named Abbey Road Studios, an EMI recording studio, named after the street, which opened in 1931 Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, the main road running through Barrow-in-Furness, England, United Kingdom Abbey Road DLR station, an East London station on the Docklands Light Railway Abbey Road on the River, the largest Beatles festival in the United States Live from Abbey Road, a recurring music television programme broadcast by More4 The Abbey Road E.P., an EP by Red Hot Chili Peppers Abbey Road E.P., an EP by Spiritualized Abbey Road, a song by Tori Amos
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  • 12. Abbey Road Studios London
    Abbey Road most commonly refers to the eleventh studio album by The Beatles. Abbey Road may also refer to: Abbey Road, London, a street in North London, England, United Kingdom for which the album was named Abbey Road Studios, an EMI recording studio, named after the street, which opened in 1931 Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, the main road running through Barrow-in-Furness, England, United Kingdom Abbey Road DLR station, an East London station on the Docklands Light Railway Abbey Road on the River, the largest Beatles festival in the United States Live from Abbey Road, a recurring music television programme broadcast by More4 The Abbey Road E.P., an EP by Red Hot Chili Peppers Abbey Road E.P., an EP by Spiritualized Abbey Road, a song by Tori Amos
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  • 14. Horse Guards London
    The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. Raised in August 1650 at Newcastle upon Tyne and County Durham by Sir Arthur Haselrigge on the orders of Oliver Cromwell as a Regiment of Horse, the regiment became the Earl of Oxford's Regiment in 1660 upon the Restoration of King Charles II. As, uniquely, the regiment's coat was blue in colour at the time, it was nicknamed the Oxford Blues, from which was derived the nickname the Blues. In 1750 the regiment became the Royal Horse Guards Blue and eventually, in 1877, the Royal Horse Guards . The regiment served in the French Revolutionary Wars and in the Peninsular War. Two squadrons fought, with distinction, in the Household Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo. In 1918, the regimen...
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  • 15. Dr. Johnson's House London
    Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican and a generous philanthropist. Politically, he was a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history. He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature.Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, Johnson attended Pembroke College, Oxford, for just over a year, but a lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher, he moved to London...
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