Washington Irving

Washington Irving is a memorial in Westminster, Greater London, England. Washington Irving is situated nearby to the theater building London Palladium, as well as near the office building Ideal House.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and London Palladium.

Leicester Square

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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 Palladium

Theater building

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The London Palladium is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, in the Soho district of London. The theatre was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1910.

Carnaby Street

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Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster. Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street, it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques. Carnaby Street is situated 700 feet southeast of Washington Irving.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Soho and Mayfair-Marylebone.

Soho

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Soho is a district of central London, part of the West End, famous for jazz, its gay village, sex shops and alternative lifestyles.

Mayfair-Marylebone

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Mayfair and Marylebone are districts of central London. Together they cover a large area of western central London, encompassing the whole of Mayfair and Piccadilly to the south and the area from Oxford Street through Marylebone to Regent's Park and the border with St John's Wood to the north.

Chinatown

Suburb

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Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west and Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street.

Washington Irving

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859, American writer, lived here.”
Category: historic site
Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.51464° or 51° 30′ 53″ north

Longitude

-0.14066° or 0° 8′ 26″ west

Open location code

9C3XGV75+VP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5597758261

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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