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* Apsley House
* Banqueting House
* BBC Experience
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* 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
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Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Do not miss )
This is the geographical and symbolic centre of London; all road distances are measured from here and, at its centre, Nelson's Column is one of London's most potent symbols. The grandiose buildings of South Africa House, Canada House and the National Gallery line three sides of the square, while the fourth opens to Whitehall. The square takes its name from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which Admiral Nelson, Britain's greatest naval hero, commanded his fleet to the famous victory against Franco-Spanish forces. Nelson was killed during the battle and the 57m-high column was erected between 1839 and 1842.
The church on the square, with its landmark tower dramatically floodlit by night, is St Martin-in-the-Fields, built in 1726 by James Gibbs. This handsome building is famous for concerts and is also a thriving community centre with a social care unit and several minor visitor attractions. Above ground it hosts a daily clothes and crafts market, while its famous crypt houses an art gallery, the London Brass Rubbing Centre, gift shops and the excellent Café-in-the-Crypt.
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Address: Trafalgar SquarePhone: General enquiries (020) 7930 0089; concert enquiries (020) 7839 8362 WEBSITE: www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org
Open: Church open 9am. Crypt Mon-Sat 10-8, Sun 12-8. Lunchtime concerts Mon, Tue, Fri at 1:05. Candlelit concerts of baroque music most Thu-Sat 7:30
Restaurant: Café-in-the-Crypt (Inexpensive)
Metro: Charing Cross, Leicester Square
Accessible: Ramp access to church, no wheelchair access to café
Admission: Free. Lunchtime concerts free, moderate charge for evening concerts
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