William Roy
William Roy is a memorial in Westminster, Greater London, England. William Roy is situated nearby to the theater building London Palladium, as well as near the pub Argyll Arms.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and London Palladium.
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 Palladium
Theater building
Photo: MykReeve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The London Palladium is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, London, in Soho. The theatre was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1910.
Oxford Circus tube station
Metro station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oxford Circus is a London Underground station in Central London. It serves Oxford Circus at the junction of Regent Street and Oxford Street, with entrances on all four corners of the intersection. Oxford Circus tube station is situated 370 feet northwest of William Roy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soho and Mayfair-Marylebone.
Soho
Photo: garryknight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
Photo: Aniacra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west, Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street.
William Roy
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Major-General William Roy, 1726 - 1790, founder of the Ordnance Survey, lived here.”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51476° or 51° 30′ 53″ northLongitude
-0.14076° or 0° 8′ 27″ westOpen location code
9C3XGV75+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 5610560239OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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