Speke Monument

The Speke Monument is a Grade II listed monument in the form of a granite obelisk in Kensington Gardens. It commemorates John Hanning Speke who is often credited with discovering Lake Victoria and the Source of the Nile.

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Type: Memorial
Description: memorial to John Hanning Speke in Kensington Gardens, London
Also known as: “Railings surrounding Speke’s Monument”, “Speke Memorial”, and “Speke’s Monument”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kensington Gardens and Royal Albert Hall.

Kensington Gardens

Park

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kensington Gardens, once part of the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are now among the Royal Parks of London and largely open to the public. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Park, in west London.

Royal Albert Hall

Theater building

Photo: Sandpiper, Public domain.

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 2,900 feet south of Speke Monument.

Hyde Park

Park

Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hyde Park is a 350-acre, historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Black Lion Gate and Bayswater.

Black Lion Gate

Locality

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Black Lion Gate is a locality.

Bayswater

Suburb

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Bayswater is an area in the City of Westminster. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and Notting Hill to the west.

Hallfield Estate

Neighborhood

Photo: HallfieldResident, Public domain.

The Hallfield Estate is one of several modernist housing projects in Bayswater, City of Westminster, and was designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin.

Speke Monument

Categories: monument, obelisk, and historic site
Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.50901° or 51° 30′ 32″ north

Longitude

-0.17917° or 0° 10′ 45″ west

Open location code

9C3XGR5C+J8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158685115

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

Wikidata ID

Q26511584

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Highlights include Kensington Dog Cemetery and Lancaster Gate Memorial Cross.

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