The Penguin Guide to London

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FOREWORD
11
AN INTRODUCTION TO LONDON 13
Exploring London, 21
APPROACHES TO LONDON 27
By Rail, 27 - By Road, 30 - By Air, 30
TRANSPORT IN LONDON 32
Railways, 32 - Motor-Buses, 39 - Motor-Launches, 43 - Taxicabs, 44 - Private Motor-Cars, 45 - Car Parking, 45
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS 47
Hotels, 47 - Boarding-Houses, 51 - Residential Hotels, 52 -
Restaurants, 52 ~ Tea-Rooms, 57 - Licensing Hours, 58
POST OFFICES, INFORMATION BUREAUX, AND USEFUL
ADDRESSES 59
Post Offices, 59 - Telephones, 60 - Information Bureaux, 61 -
Travel Agents, 61 - Useful Addresses, 61 - Banks, 61 - Clubs,
62 - Societies, 63 - Institutes, 65 - Libraries, 65
ENTERTAINMENTS 67
Theatres, 67 - Opera and Ballet, 70 - Cinemas, 70 - Concerts
and other Music, 71 - Art Exhibitions, 73 - Other Exhibitions
and Shows, 74 - Festival Gardens, 75 - Dancing and Cabaret,
75
SPORT IN AND AROUND LONDON 77
GENERAL INFORMATION 84
Maps and Plans, 84 - Shopping, 85 - Markets, 86 - Bank
Holidays, 87 - Police, 87 - Baths, 87 - Church Services, 88 -
Parks and Gardens, 89 - Annual Events, 90 - Books on
London, 92 - Abbreviations, 95
ROUTES IN LONDON
1. Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square 97
2. Charing Cross to Parliament Square (Whitehall) 100
3. Parliament Square to Lambeth Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge 105
4. Parliament Square to Victoria 110
5. Charing Cross to Hyde Park Corner or Victoria via St
James's Park 115
6. Charing Cross to Hyde Park Corner via Pall Mall 120
7. Charing Cross to Hyde Park Corner via Piccadilly 130
8. Victoria to Battersea Bridge (Chelsea) 138
9. Victoria to Hyde Park Comer and Marble Arch 144
10. Hyde Park Corner to South Kensington 148
11. Hyde Park Corner to Kensington 152
12. Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens 157
13. Hyde Park Corner to Marble Arch via Mayfair 161
14. Marble Arch to St Giles Circus (Oxford Street) 164
15. Piccadilly Circus to Regent's Park (Regent Street) 169
16. Marble Arch to Euston and King's Cross via Marylebone
Road ' 173
17. Regent's Park and Neighbourhood 180
18. Piccadilly Circus to Euston (Soho, Bloomsbury) 183
19. Charing Cross to Euston via Holborn 191
20. Piccadilly Circus to Fleet Street via Covent Garden 197
21. Charing Cross to Fleet Street via the Strand 207
22. The Strand to King's Cross via Kingsway and Coram's
Fields 215
23. St Giles Circus to St Paul's Cathedral via Holborn 221
24. Fleet Street to St Paul's Cathedral (The Temple) 230
25. St Paul's Cathedral to the Bank or London Bridge 239
26. Westminster Bridge to London Bridge and the Bank 243
27. Blackfriars Bridge to the Tower via Thames Street 253
28. The Bank of England and its Neighbourhood 256
29. The Bank to King's Cross via Cheapside and Smithfield 262
30. The Bank to the Angel (Islington) via Guildhall and the
Charterhouse 271
31. The Bank to the Angel via Moopgate 279
32. The Bank to Shoreditch via Bishopsgate 282
33. The Bank to Aldgate via Cornhill, returning via Fenchurch
Street 286
34. The Bank to London Bridge or to the Tower and Tower
Bridge 294
35. London Bridge to Lambeth Bridge via St George's Circus 301
36. Lambeth Bridge to London Bridge via Waterloo and
Bankside 308
PLACES OF INTEREST
British Museum 315
Chelsea Hospital 331
Houses of Parliament 334
Imperial War Museum 346
Kensington Palace and the
London Museum 349
National Gallery 354
National Portrait Gallery 366
Natural History Museum 373
St Paul's Cathedral 378
Science and Geological
Museums
Southwark Cathedral
Tate Gallery
Tower of London
Victoria & Albert Museum
Wallace Collection
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Cathedral
Zoological Gardens
PLACES OF INTEREST
Fulham
Hammersmith
Paddington
Hampstead
Highgate
Islington
Stoke Newington
Bethnal Green and Hackney
Whitechapel and Bow
Stepney and Poplar
IN OUTER
471
471
473
473
477
478
479
479
480
481
LONDON
Rotherhithe and Deptford
Greenwich
Woolwich and Charlton
Camberwell and Heme Hill
Dulwich and Crystal Palace
Kennington, Brixton, and
Streatham
Clapham
Battersea
DEFINITIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL TERMS
INDEX
MAPS AND PLANS
389
394
398
405
418
435
439
460
464
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483
484
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
497
Index Map of London At the beginning of the book
Road Routes into and around London 28-9
The Railways of London 36-7
Motor-Buses in Central London 40-1
Theatres and Cinemas in Central London 69
British Museum 317> 327
Houses of Parliament 337
National Gallery 357
St Paul's Cathedral 381
Tower of London 407
Victoria & Albert Museum 421,431
Westminster Abbey 443
Zoological Gardens 465
Street Plans of London At the end of the book

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