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Clarence House

Clarence House is a royal residence on in the , London. It was built in 1825–1827, adjacent to , for the royal Duke of Clarence, the future King William IV.
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: official residence of king Charles III, and his wife Camilla
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and St James’s Park.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Park
Photo: Gerry Lynch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St James's Park is a 23-hectare in the , central London. A Royal Park, it is at the southernmost end of the area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less, now the site of .

Government office
Photo: CMallwitz, Public domain.
, a Grade I listed mansion on in , , , is the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Nations and the seat of the Commonwealth Secretariat. is situated 660 feet northeast of Clarence House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St James’s and Whitehall.

Neighborhood
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St James's is a district of , and a central district in the , London, forming part of the . The area was once part of the northwestern gardens and parks of St.

Locality
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is a road and area in the , Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from to .

Suburb
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is an area of , in the . It is named after , which is a major transport hub. The station was named after the nearby Street, opened 1851.

Clarence House

Latitude
51.50398° or 51° 30′ 14″ north
Longitude
-0.13844° or 0° 8′ 18″ west
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
Inception
1827
Open location code
9C3XGV36+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 54478457
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
12042054
Wiki­data ID
Q565521
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Clarence House” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Clarence House”
  • Arabic: “دارة كلارنس”
  • Arabic: “قصر كلارنس”
  • Asturian: “Clarence House”
  • Belarusian: “Кларэнс-Гаўс”
  • Belarusian: “Кларэнс-хаус”
  • Bulgarian: “Кларънс Хаус”
  • Catalan: “Clarence House”
  • Chinese: “克拉伦斯宫”
  • Chinese: “克拉伦斯府”
  • Chinese: “克拉倫斯府”
  • Chinese: “克拉倫斯館”
  • Czech: “Clarence House”
  • Danish: “Clarence House”
  • Dutch: “Clarence House”
  • Finnish: “Clarence House”
  • French: “Clarence House”
  • German: “Clarence House”
  • Greek: “Κλάρενς Χάουζ”
  • Hebrew: “בית קלארנס”
  • Hebrew: “בית קלרנס”
  • Hindi: “क्लॅरेन्स हाउस”
  • Hungarian: “Clarence-ház”
  • Indonesian: “Clarence House”
  • Indonesian: “Rumah Clarence”
  • Irish: “Teach Clarence”
  • Italian: “Clarence House”
  • Japanese: “クラランス・ハウス”
  • Japanese: “クラレンス・ハウス”
  • Japanese: “クラレンス邸”
  • Maltese: “Clarence House”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Clarence House”
  • Norwegian: “Clarence House”
  • Persian: “خانه کلارنس”
  • Persian: “کلارنس هاوس”
  • Polish: “Clarence House”
  • Portuguese: “Clarence House”
  • Romanian: “Casa Clarence”
  • Romanian: “Clarence House”
  • Russian: “Кларенс хауз”
  • Russian: “Кларенс Хаус”
  • Russian: “Кларенс-хаус”
  • Slovenian: “Clarence House”
  • Spanish: “Clarence House”
  • Swedish: “Clarence House”
  • Thai: “พระตำหนักแคลเรนซ์”
  • Turkish: “Clarence House”
  • Ukrainian: “Кларенс-гаус”
  • Ukrainian: “Кларенс-хаус”
  • Urdu: “کلیرنس ہاؤس”
  • Uzbek: “Clarence House”
  • Welsh: “Clarence House”
  • Welsh: “Tŷ Clarence”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Clarence House”. Photo: ChrisO, CC BY-SA 3.0.