London
London
+ Central London
Sights
* Apsley House
* Banqueting House
* BBC Experience
* British Airways London Eye
* Buckingham Palace
* Cabinet War Rooms
* Chelsea
* Clink Exhibition
* Courtauld Gallery
* Design Museum
* Dickens House Museum
* Docklands
* Fleet Street
* Guildhall
* Hampstead
* Harrods
* HMS Belfast
* Highgate
* Hyde Park
* Imperial War Museum
* Inns of Court
* Jermyn Street
* Jewel Tower
* Kensington Palace and Kensington Gardens
* Kenwood House
* Leighton House
* Lloyd's Building
* London Aquarium
* London Dungeon
* London Planetarium
* London Transport Museum
* London Zoo
* Madame Tussaud's
* Monument
* Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
* Museum of London
* National Army Museum
* National Portrait Gallery
* Oxo Tower
* Piccadilly Circus
* Regent's Park
* Royal Academy (of Arts)
* St Bartholomew-the-Great
* St Bride
* St James's Palace
* St James's Park
* St James's Piccadilly
* St James's Street
* St Katharine's Dock
* St Stephen Walbrook
* Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition
* Sir John Soane's Museum
* Soho
* Southwark Cathedral
* Spencer House
* Tate Britain and Tate Modern
* Theatre Museum
* Tower Bridge
* Trafalgar Square
* Wallace Collection
* Westminster Cathedral
* Whitehall
* Winston Churchill's Britain at War
Vicinity
+ Vicinity
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Do not miss )
London's Docklands stretch some 8km (5 miles) east of the Tower of London to the old Royal Docks. Historically, this area was the powerhouse of the Empire, at its height the busiest port in the world. It reached the peak of its activity in 1964 but changes in technology (most notably containerisation) signalled its sudden demise. Within a decade most of the quays and great swathes of nearby land were derelict and remained so until the early 1980s when the government began the world's largest urban redevelopment project to date. The transformation of this brave new boomtown has generated enormous controversy, with fortunes made and lost and completion still a long way off.
The centrepiece is Canary Wharf, Britain's tallest building at 243m. Docklands has no significant tourist attractions as yet, but a trip on the Docklands Light Railway is highly recommended for its high-level views into this Brave New London World. Try also the area's historical riverside pubs, which include the Prospect of Whitby, the Mayflower and the Grapes.
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