Sights and neighbourhoods
Westminster, the City, the South Bank and the East End.
5 Popular London Attractions for Your First Trip
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Dr. Johnson’s famous quote is as true today as it was 200 years ago, and one could spend years trying to decide which of the city’s…
Bayswater - the diverse area of London
The Bayswater area spans north of Hyde Park and comprises Queensway and Paddington. It has a cosmopolite atmosphere, with shops, pubs and restaurants serving all the cuisine you can think of.
The Millennium Bridge
The Millennium Bridge , designed to celebrate the year 2000, was the first new bridge built across the River Thames in London since Tower Bridge opened in 1894.
Leicester Square
Leicester Square (pronounced Less-ter ) is a pedestrian-only plaza in the West End bordered by Soho, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly.
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square , right in the center of London, is a major meeting point for the city's roads, local Londoners and tourists.
Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament
The Houses of Parliament , or Palace of Westminster, has been at its current site in some form since 1042.
Albert Memorial
Beside Kensington Gardens and across the street from the Royal Albert Hall is a splendidly ornate memorial honoring Prince Albert , the dearly beloved husband of Queen Victoria, who died at age 42 in…
Golden Jubilee Bridges
Central London has three major pedestrian bridges across the River Thames: the Millennium Bridge near the Tate Modern , and the two Golden Jubliee Bridges .
London's Gherkin
One of the most distinctive buildings in the City of London is 30 St Mary Axe , otherwise known as The Gherkin .
HMS Belfast London
HMS Belfast , a former Royal Navy cruiser, is now a permanent floating museum of maritime heritage . You'll find it moored beside the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.
BT Tower
Located on Cleveland Street in Fitzrovia, the BT Tower (formerly known as the Post Office Tower) can be glimpsed from all across London's West End.
The Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall , located in South Kensington on the south side of Hyde Park, just opposite the Albert Memorial, is one of the most famous music venues in Britain.
The Golden Hinde
Along the South Bank of the Thames, tucked in beside an office building and a large pub, an ornate, antique sailing ship is surprisingly moored in a narrow dock.
Royal Arsenal
Prior to the late 1990s, many street maps of London would feature a large blank-white area between the south bank of the River Thames, Thamesmead West and Woolwich Arsenal.
New Zealand War Memorial in London
The New Zealand War Memorial was jointly unveiled and dedicated by the Queen and the New Zealand Prime Minister in 2006.
Bali Bombing Memorial in London
In 2006, Prince Charles unveiled a somber memorial to British and European victims of the 2002 Bali bombings, near St. James' Park.
The Queen's Walk
The bustling promenade between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge on the South Bank of the River Thames is known as The Queen's Walk .
View from the London Eye
This video is taken from a pod at the top of the London Eye, giving a 360-degree view of the capital.
London Sightseeing Bus Tours
Taking a sightseeing bus tour is a great way for first-time London tourists to simultaneously learn the city's layout and take in some of its most famous attractions.
Speaker's Corner
In modern, wary London, with its growing web of CCTV cameras and expanding police powers, anyone lecturing a gathered crowd to speak their mind will most likely be brought to a halt by law…
Australian War Memorial in London
In Hyde Park Corner , where Park Lane, Piccadilly, Grosvenor Place, Knightsbridge and Constitution Hill meet, you'll find the Australian War Memorial , commemorating Australians who died fighting…
The Monument
Around midnight on September 2, 1666, a fire started in Thomas Farriner's bakery in Pudding Lane, close to London Bridge.
Bike Tours in London
London is a big, sprawling city with a huge variety of different areas and attractions to visit. Taking a bicycle tour in London can be a fun, efficient way to see a large swath of the city's sights.
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus is a busy junction in the heart of central London, as iconic a symbol of the city as Times Square is of New York.
Cleopatra's Needle
London, Paris and New York all share a similar landmark, an ancient Egyptian obelisk presented to their countries by the rulers of Egypt in the 19th century.
Chinatown in London
London's had a Chinese community since the 19th century, when Chinese sailors brought to London as employees of the East India Company settled in the East End around Limehouse, close to the old…
Free Walking Tours in London
Innovative tour company Sandeman’s New Europe offers free, informal walking tours of London.
Attractions
London Photo: London Eye Fireworks
London Eye on New Years Eve The London Eye is one of the city's iconic images these days, but it's not every day that you see it spouting fireworks.
London Photo: St. John's Chapel
St. John's Chapel - The Tower of London The light captured in this photo is, to me, absolutely stunning.
Sat Lav in Westminster
The City of Westminster has many of London's leading tourist attractions, entertainment areas and shopping districts. What it doesn't have are extensive and easily findable public toilets.
London Boroughs: Kensington and Chelsea
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , just to the west of central London, is one of the most densely populated authorities in Britain and also one of the wealthiest.
London Boroughs: Camden
Camden is one of London's most diverse boroughs stretching from the central entertainment and business districts of Covent Garden and Holborn in its south, up through Euston, Kings Cross and trendy…
London Boroughs: Westminster
Westminster , or the City of Westminster, is where the average tourist will spend a lot of their stay.
London Neighborhoods
Here are a series of links to sections of London that offer visitors a look at the different aspects of the city, from its historical heart to the business and entertainment areas to off-the-beaten…
Universities in London
University of London Switchboard Tel:+44 (0)20 7862 8000 Information Centre Tel:+44 (0)20 7862 8360 / 8361 / 8362 Address: University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU - Map…
Gandhi London Walk
There's a new guided walk of London that's just started which explore's parts of the city associated with Mahatma Gandhi's time in the capital.
Platform Art
London Underground has an art programme called Platform for Art where new designs and artistic work are displayed around the city's Tube stations.
London Tourist Information Centres
Britain and London Visitor Centre Address: 1 Regent Street, London SW1Y 4XT - Map Opening Hours Monday 9.30am-6.30pm Tuesday-Friday 9am-6.30pm Weekends 10am-4pm Saturdays from June to Sept 9am-5pm…
New visitor centre for the Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark is the 280ft long sailing tea clipper in dry dock at Greenwich in East London.
The Thames Barrier
The River Thames snakes its way through the heart of London and is a tidal river for about half of its 200 mile length.
Sightseeing Runs of London
There's a website I've been looking at today that offers Guided Runs of London and says that its London’s only Running Sightseeing Tour.
100 years of the Old Bailey
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been down at Britain's most famous court today celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Shortwalking in London
A group of students at Central St Martins College of Art and Design have used a section of London Underground's famous Tube map as part of a course work project to encourage more people to give up…
Free guided walks of London
If you're a visitor to London and in town this weekend there's a great oppurtunity to experience guided tours of central London for free.
Canary Wharf - Part 2
Continued from Canary Wharf - Part 1 There's a green-coloured foot bridge that you can take from West India Quay to the other side of North Dock at Wren's Landing.
Canary Wharf - Part 1
At the start of the 1980s, Canary Wharf comprised 8.5 square miles of unused docks and river frontage.
Fleet Street part 2
Fleet Street's been associated with the printing industry for over 500 years. Publishing started there in 1500 when an apprentice of William Caxton moved his printing presses to premises on Shoe…
Fleet Street part 1
Fleet Street is one of the most well known London street names. People all over the UK who've never been to the capital will have heard of Fleet Street and known what it meant.
Broadgate: Not Just Office Blocks
Walking through the city the other day around the Broadgate and Exchange Square area close to Liverpool Street station it was interesting how different objects and structures have been used to break…
Brick Lane in London
Brick Lane in east London has become famous as one of the curry centres of the city.
St Katherine's Dock in London
When you walk around London its always interesting to see how the old parts of the city fit in with the new. One place where this is prominent is on the north side of Tower Bridge .
Butler's Wharf
A area that visitors might miss out on looking around is Butlers Wharf , right next Tower Bridge on the south bank of the river immediately east of the bridge.
City Hall London
On the south bank of the River Thames, directly across from the Tower of London is an unusual looking building, the recently built City Hall .
London's Soho
London doesn't really have a red light district on the scale of Amsterdam or parts of Germany, Soho was always the nearest London got, sleazy, slighty edgy, the place where punters from the sticks or…
London's Blue Plaques
Walking around London you may notice some round blue signs on buildings with someone's name and some personal details on them, these are part of the Blue Plaque scheme, currently run by English…
An Overview of London Neighborhoods: Part 3
North west of central London are two areas that are well known for the people that live there.
An Overview of London's Neighborhoods: Part 2
If you decided to head north out of the West End you would find yourself passing from the Borough of Westminster to the Borough of Camden, home to Regent's Park, a 487-acre area that has a lake,…
An Overview of London's Neighborhoods: Part 1
First time visitors to London will inevitably spend the bulk of their time in an area that stretches roughly from Notting Hill in the west to Tower Bridge in the east, bordered on the south by the…