Apsley House

Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of , facing towards the large traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the .
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  • Opening hours: Wednesday—Sunday 11:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington
  • Also known as: “Number One, London” and “Wellington Museum”
  • Address: 149 Piccadilly, London, W1J 7NT

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and Constitution Arch.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

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The Wellington Arch, also known as the or as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central , the road junction near the south-eastern corner of . is situated 400 feet southeast of Apsley House.

Park
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is a 350-acre, historic Grade I-listed in , Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from through and , via Corner and , past to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belgravia and Mayfair-Marylebone.

Suburb
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is a district in , covering parts of the areas of the and the . was known as the 'Five Fields' during the Tudor Period, and became a dangerous place due to highwaymen and robberies.

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Mayfair and Marylebone are districts of central . 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.

Suburb
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is a residential and retail district in , south of . It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the .

Apsley House

Latitude
51.50349° or 51° 30′ 13″ north
Longitude
-0.15171° or 0° 9′ 6″ west
Levels
3
Height
66 feet (20 metres)
Operator
English Heritage
Open location code
9C3XGR3X+98
Open­Street­Map ID
way 120316250
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q622206
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Apsley House” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أبسلي هاوس”
  • Basque: “Apsley House”
  • Bulgarian: “Апсли Хаус”
  • Chinese: “阿普斯利大屋（惠灵顿公爵）”
  • Chinese: “阿普斯利大屋”
  • Chinese: “阿普斯利邸宅”
  • Croatian: “Wellington Museum”
  • Dutch: “Apsley House”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابسلى هاوس”
  • Finnish: “Apsley House”
  • French: “Apsley House”
  • German: “Apsley House”
  • Greek: “Οίκος Άπσλεϊ”
  • Hebrew: “בית אפסלי”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון וולינגטון”
  • Hungarian: “Apsley-ház”
  • Italian: “Apsley House”
  • Italian: “Wellington Museum”
  • Japanese: “アプスリー・ハウス”
  • Macedonian: “Епсли Хаус”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Apsley House”
  • Norwegian: “Apsley House”
  • Polish: “Apsley House”
  • Polish: “Number One”
  • Polish: “Wellington Museum”
  • Portuguese: “Apsley house”
  • Portuguese: “Apsley House”
  • Russian: “Эпсли Хаус”
  • Russian: “Эпсли-хаус”
  • Russian: “Эпсли-Хаус”
  • Slovenian: “Apsley House”
  • Slovenian: “Wellington Museum”
  • Spanish: “Apsley House.”
  • Spanish: “Apsley House”
  • Spanish: “Museo Wellington”
  • Spanish: “Wellington Museum”
  • Swedish: “Apsley House”
  • Turkish: “Apsley House”
  • Ukrainian: “Епслі-хаус”
  • Welsh: “Apsley House”
  • Welsh: “Tŷ Apsley”
  • Wu Chinese: “厄颇茜大宅”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿普斯利大宅”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿普斯利大屋”

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