York Watergate

York Watergate is a Grade I listed gate in the Victoria Embankment Gardens that previously fronted onto the River Thames.

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: City gate
Description: water gate at York House, Strand, in the City of Westminster, London, England, UK
Also known as: “Buckingham Gate”, “York Gate”, and “York Water Gate”

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: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 more than three million visitors annually. London Eye is situated 1,900 feet southeast of York Watergate.

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 Borough 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.

York Watergate

Categories: built structure, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.50814° or 51° 30′ 29″ north

Longitude

-0.12291° or 0° 7′ 23″ west

Inception

1626

Open location code

9C3XGV5G+7R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1184091184

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=city_gate

Wikidata ID

Q70066448

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Highlights include York Water Gate and Victoria Embankment Open Air Theatre.

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