Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs, and several additional authorities throughout the United Kingdom.- Type: Police post
- Description: headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, Westminster, Greater London from October 2016
- Also known as: “New Scotland Yard” and “New Scotland Yard (Metropolitan Police)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and Westminster Abbey.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
Westminster Abbey
Church
Photo: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Westminster Abbey is situated 1,400 feet east of Scotland Yard.
Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England. Big Ben is situated 2,100 feet east of Scotland Yard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westminster and Victoria.
Westminster
Quarter
Westminster is the main settlement of the City of Westminster in Central London, England. It extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street and has many famous landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and much of the West End cultural centre including the entertainment precinct of West End theatre.
Victoria
Suburb
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Victoria is an area of Westminster, Central London in the City of Westminster. It is named after Victoria Station, which is a major transport hub. The station was named after the nearby Victoria Street, opened 1851.
Whitehall
Locality
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Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.
Scotland Yard
- Category: police station
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Scotland Yard” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Scotland Yard”
- Arabic: “سكوتلاند يارد”
- Armenian: “Սկոտլանդ յարդ”
- Armenian: “Սքոթլանդ Յարդ”
- Basque: “Scotland Yard Berria”
- Basque: “Scotland Yard”
- Bengali: “স্কটল্যান্ড ইয়ার্ড”
- Bulgarian: “Скотланд Ярд”
- Catalan: “Scotland Yard”
- Central Kurdish: “سکۆتلاند یارد”
- Chinese: “新蘇格蘭場”
- Chinese: “苏格兰场”
- Chinese: “蘇格蘭場”
- Chinese: “蘇格蘭警場”
- Croatian: “Scotland Yard”
- Czech: “New Scotland Yard”
- Czech: “Scotland Yard”
- Czech: “The Yard”
- Danish: “Met”
- Danish: “New Scotland Yard”
- Danish: “NSY”
- Danish: “Scotland Yard”
- Dutch: “New Scotland Yard”
- Dutch: “Scotland Yard”
- Esperanto: “Metropola Polico”
- Esperanto: “Scotland Yard”
- Estonian: “New Scotland Yard”
- Estonian: “Scotland Yard”
- Finnish: “New Scotland Yard”
- Finnish: “Scotland Yard”
- French: “New Scotland Yard”
- French: “Scotland Yard”
- Georgian: “ახალი სკოტლანდ იარდი”
- Georgian: “სკოტლანდ იარდი”
- German: “New Scotland Yard”
- German: “Scotland Yard”
- Greek: “Σκότλαντ Γιαρντ”
- Hebrew: “סקוטלנד יארד”
- Hungarian: “New Scotland Yard”
- Hungarian: “Scotland Yard”
- Icelandic: “Scotland Yard”
- Indonesian: “Scotland Yard”
- Italian: “New Scotland Yard”
- Italian: “Scotland Yard”
- Japanese: “スコットランド・ヤード”
- Japanese: “スコットランドヤード”
- Japanese: “ニュー・スコットランド・ヤード”
- Japanese: “ニュー・スコットランドヤード”
- Kazakh: “Skotland-YArd”
- Kazakh: “Скотланд-Ярд”
- Kazakh: “سكوتلاند-يارد”
- Korean: “뉴 스코틀랜드 야드”
- Korean: “스코틀랜드 야드”
- Latin: “New Scotland Yard”
- Latin: “Scotland Yard”
- Limburgan: “New Scotland Yard”
- Limburgan: “Scotland Yard”
- Malay: “Scotland Yard”
- Malayalam: “Scotland Yard”
- Malayalam: “ദ മെട്രോപൊലീസ് ഇംപ്രൂവ്മെന്റ് ബിൽ”
- Malayalam: “സ്കോട്ട്ലന്റ് യാർഡ്”
- Malayalam: “സ്കോട്ലന്റ് യാർഡ്”
- Malayalam: “സ്കോട്ലാൻഡ് യാർഡ്”
- Nepali: “स्कटल्याण्ड यार्ड”
- Nepali: “स्कटल्यान्ड यार्ड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Scotland Yard”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Scotland Yard”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scotland Yard”
- Norwegian: “New Scotland Yard”
- Persian: “اسکاتلندیارد”
- Picard: “New Scotland Yard”
- Picard: “Scotland Yard”
- Piemontese: “Scotland Yard”
- Polish: “Scotland Yard”
- Portuguese: “New Scotland Yard”
- Portuguese: “Scotland Yard”
- Romanian: “Scotland Yard”
- Russian: “Полиция Лондона”
- Russian: “Скотланд Ярд”
- Russian: “Скотланд-Ярд”
- Russian: “Скотленд-Ярд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Scotland Yard”
- Sindhi: “اسڪاٽ لينڊ يارڊ”
- Slovak: “New Scotland Yard”
- Slovak: “Scotland Yard”
- Slovenian: “New Scotland Yard”
- Slovenian: “Scotland Yard”
- Spanish: “New Scotland Yard”
- Spanish: “Scotland Yard”
- Swedish: “New Scotland Yard”
- Swedish: “Scotland Yard”
- Thai: “สกอตแลนด์ยาร์ด”
- Turkish: “Scotland Yard”
- Ukrainian: “Скотланд-Ярд”
- Ukrainian: “Скотленд-Ярд”
- Uzbek: “Scotland Yard”
- Vietnamese: “Scotland Yard”
- Vlaams: “New Scotland Yard”
- Vlaams: “Scotland Yard”
- Walloon: “New Scotland Yard”
- Walloon: “Scotland Yard”
- Waray (Philippines): “Scotland Yard”
- Western Frisian: “Scotland Yard”
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