Richard Ansdell

Richard Ansdell is a memorial in South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, England. Richard Ansdell is situated nearby to Richmond University (Kensington Campus), as well as near the apartment building Kensington Court Gardens.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Albert Hall and Natural History Museum.

Royal Albert Hall

Theater building

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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 2,200 feet east of Richard Ansdell.

Natural History Museum

Museum

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The Natural History Museum in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Natural History Museum is situated 2,700 feet southeast of Richard Ansdell.

Science Museum

Museum

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The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2,817,852 visitors in 2025. Science Museum is situated 2,500 feet east of Richard Ansdell.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Kensington and Kensington.

South Kensington

Suburb

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South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton.

Kensington

Suburb

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Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, centred around 2.9 miles west of Charing Cross. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, which runs east–west.

Earls Court

Suburb

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Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.

Richard Ansdell

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “Richard Ansdell, RA, 1815 - 1885, eminent Victorian painter, lived in Lytham House on this site, 1862 - 1884.”
Category: historic site
Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.49938° or 51° 29′ 58″ north

Longitude

-0.18692° or 0° 11′ 13″ west

Open location code

9C3XFRX7+Q6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7612778135

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Richmond University (Kensington Campus) and Kensington Court Gardens.

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