Location: Westminster
Top Things to do in Westminster
Things to do in London, England: The Best Nature & Parks
The crown jewels, Buckingham Palace, Camden Market…in London, history collides with art, fashion, food, and good British ale. A perfect day is different for everyone: culture aficionados shouldn't miss the Tate Modern and the Royal Opera House. If you love fashion, Oxford Street has shopping galore. For foodies, cream tea at Harrod’s or crispy fish from a proper chippy offers classic London flavor. Music and book buffs will love seeing Abbey Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker Street, of course).
Restaurants in London
1. St. James's Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 18,780 reviews
This 90-acre park, the oldest Royal Park in London, features a large lake that is a wildlife sanctuary for ducks, geese, swans and even pelicans.
Reviewed By DAG1875 - London, United Kingdom
What more can you want a wide variety of ducks and geese, pelicans who reign supreme and a bridge that enables you to look towards Buckingham Palace or Downing Street and Horse Guards’ parade?
2. The Victoria Tower Gardens
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 125 reviews
Reviewed By Travelling_SE_Asia - St. Albans, United Kingdom
A small pocket of green space, great for rest and relaxation, in the heart of Westminster between the Houses of Parliament, the River Thames, Millbank and Lambeth Bridge. There are a number of memorials here celebrating freedom. The Buxton Memorial which memorialised the abolition of slavery and the French Sculptor Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais. At the opposite end of the gardens is the horse ferry playground for children.
3. Whitehall Gardens
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4.5 based on 21 reviews
Reviewed By futtock21 - London, United Kingdom
Whitehall Gardens are all that remain of what was once the Privy Gardens of the Palace of Whitehall, a pleasure garden used by the late Tudor and Stuart monarchs but which fell into disuse following the palace’s destruction by fire in 1698. Today it is a series of gardens with lawns, flowerbeds and statues between Embankment station and New Scotland Yard adjacent to both the Embankment itself and Ministry of Defence buildings. The ornate railings are reproductions of originals designed by Bazalgette the Victorian engineer who built the Embankment roadway reclaiming it from the river. The eclectic group of statues within the gardens are of Bartle Frere (1887) a general who suppressed the Indian Mutiny (1857); Sir James Outram (1871) who defended Lucknow; William Tyndale (1884) who translated the Bible into English and was burnt at the stake in Antwerp in 1535 on the orders of Henry VIII. Outside is a statue (1929) of Samuel Plimsoll together with the load line he invented preventing ships from overloading.
4. Duck Island Cottage Garden
5. Grosvenor Playground
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1 reviews
6. St. John’s Gardens
Overall Ratings
3.0 based on 1 reviews
