William Smith
William Smith is a memorial in Westminster, Greater London, England. William Smith is situated nearby to the city gate York Watergate, as well as near the theater building Victoria Embankment Open Air Theatre.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and London Charing Cross.
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.
London Charing Cross
Railway station
Photo: Joshua Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster. It is the terminus of the Southeastern Main Lines to Dover via Ashford and Hastings via Tunbridge Wells.
London Eye
Ferris wheel
Photo: Khamtran, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The London Eye, originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually. London Eye is situated 1,900 feet southeast of William Smith.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Covent Garden and West End of London.
Covent Garden
Photo: Hamster28, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of London, and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.
West End of London
Locality
Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The West End of London is a district of London, England. It is west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in the London Boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster.
St Clement Danes
Neighborhood
St Clement Danes was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England; an ecclesiastical version remains. The parish was split between the Liberty of Westminster and the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster.
William Smith
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “William Smith 1769-1839 ‘Father of English Geology’ made the first geological map of an entire country -England and Wales- in 1815 lived on this site 1804-1819”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50823° or 51° 30′ 30″ northLongitude
-0.123° or 0° 7′ 23″ westOpen location code
9C3XGV5G+7ROpenStreetMap ID
node 5325427427OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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