Horse Guards Parade
Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground off Whitehall in central London. It is the site of the annual ceremonies of Trooping the Colour, which commemorates the monarch's official birthday, and the Beating Retreat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: square and parade ground in London
- Also known as: “Horse Guards” and “Horseguards Parade”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and Big Ben.
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.
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 1,700 feet southeast of Horse Guards Parade.
Banqueting House
Photo: ChrisO, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Banqueting House, on Whitehall in the City of Westminster, central London, is the grandest and best-known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting houses, constructed for elaborate entertaining. Banqueting House is situated 540 feet east of Horse Guards Parade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitehall and Westminster.
Whitehall
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
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.
St James’s
Neighborhood
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St James's is a district of Westminster, and a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End. The area was once part of the northwestern gardens and parks of St.
Horse Guards Parade
- Categories: square, place-of-arms, tourism, and military installation
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50466° or 51° 30′ 17″ northLongitude
-0.1283° or 0° 7′ 42″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)Open location code
9C3XGV3C+VMOpenStreetMap ID
way 4256958OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Horse Guards Parade” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “استعراض حرس الخيالة”
- Cebuano: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Chinese: “騎兵衛隊閱兵場”
- Czech: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Dutch: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موكب حراس الحصان”
- Finnish: “Horse Guards Parade”
- French: “Horse Guards Parade”
- German: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Hebrew: “משמר הסוסים”
- Hebrew: “רחבת משמר הסוסים”
- Indonesian: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Irish: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Italian: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Japanese: “ホース・ガーズ・パレード”
- Korean: “호스 가즈 퍼레이드”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Norwegian: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Polish: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Romanian: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Russian: “Парад конной гвардии”
- Serbian: “Gardijski konjički manjež”
- Serbian: “Гардијски коњички мањеж”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gardijski konjički manjež”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Slovak: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Slovenian: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Spanish: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Swedish: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Turkish: “Horse Guards Parade”
- Welsh: “Horse Guards Parade”
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