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?
( Worth Seeing )
From the early 16th century until 1780, the Clink, 'a very dismal hole', was the jail of the Bishops of Winchester, used to incarcerate the lowlife of Bankside - including prostitutes, drunks, debtors and actors who had 'broken the peace'. In fact it was so notorious that it entered the English language as a synonym for jail. Not that the Bishop held the moral high ground. He acted effectively as protection racketeer and pimp, licensing, and profiting from, the various illegal activities that went on in the badlands of Bankside. You can learn all about these colourful times at the Clink Exhibition. Alongside part of a wall with a great rose window is all that survives of the Bishops Palace, Winchester House, built in 1109.
Address: 1 Clink Street
Phone: (020) 7378 1558
Open: Daily 10-6
Restaurant: fish!, Cathedral Street, Borough Market (Moderately priced)
Metro: London Bridge
Accessible: None
Admission: Moderate
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