Milestone Hotel

The Milestone Hotel is a five-star hotel at 1 Kensington Court, Kensington, London, United Kingdom. It overlooks Kensington Gardens. It was originally built as a house in 1884, in part of the grounds of the now-demolished Kensington House.

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Type: Hotel
Description: hotel in Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, UK
Also known as: “Milestone Hotel and Apartments” and “The Milestone Hotel”
Address: 1 Kensington Court, London, W8 5DL

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Albert Hall and Natural History Museum.

Royal Albert Hall

Theater building

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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. Royal Albert Hall is situated 2,100 feet east of Milestone Hotel.

Natural History Museum

Museum

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The Natural History Museum in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Natural History Museum is situated 3,100 feet southeast of Milestone Hotel.

Science Museum

Museum

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The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2,817,852 visitors in 2025. Science Museum is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Milestone Hotel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Kensington and Black Lion Gate.

South Kensington

Suburb

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South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton.

Black Lion Gate

Locality

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Black Lion Gate is a locality.

Kensington

Suburb

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Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, centred around 2.9 miles west of Charing Cross. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, which runs east–west.

Milestone Hotel

Categories: building, tourism, hotel building, and accommodation
Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.50194° or 51° 30′ 7″ north

Longitude

-0.18668° or 0° 11′ 12″ west

Elevation

82 feet (25 metres)

Open location code

9C3XGR27+Q8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 128287485

OpenStreetMap feature

building=hotel

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=hotel

GeoNames ID

6468003

Wikidata ID

Q23301483

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Milestone Hotel” goes by many names.

Chinese: “里程碑酒店”
Danish: “Milestone Hotel”
French: “Milestone Hotel”
Tswana: “Milestone Hotel”
Turkish: “Milestone Hotel”

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