Douglas Bader
Douglas Bader is a memorial in South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, England. Douglas Bader is situated nearby to the government office Consular Section of Embassy of Iraq, as well as near High Commission of Mauritius.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Natural History Museum and Royal Albert Hall.
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 1,500 feet east of Douglas Bader.
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 1,800 feet northeast of Douglas Bader.
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 1,400 feet east of Douglas Bader.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Kensington and Brompton.
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.
Brompton
Suburb
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Brompton, sometimes called Old Brompton, is an area in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex.
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.
Douglas Bader
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Sir Douglas Bader (1910-1982) RAF Fighter Pilot lived here 1955-1982”
- Category: historic site
- Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.49733° or 51° 29′ 50″ northLongitude
-0.18258° or 0° 10′ 57″ westOpen location code
9C3XFRW8+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 8009960767OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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