Wellington Barracks
Wellington Barracks is a military barracks in the City of Westminster for the Foot Guards units on public duties in that area. The building is located about 300 yards from Buckingham Palace, allowing the guard to reach the palace very quickly in an emergency, and lies between Birdcage Walk and Petty France.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and Westminster Abbey.
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.
Westminster Abbey
Church
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Westminster Abbey is situated 2,300 feet east of Wellington Barracks.
Victoria Memorial
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The Victoria Memorial is a monument to Queen Victoria, located at the end of The Mall in London by the sculptor Sir Thomas Brock. Designed in 1901, it was unveiled on 16 May 1911, though it was not completed until 1924. Victoria Memorial is situated 950 feet northwest of Wellington Barracks.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victoria and Westminster.
Victoria
Suburb
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Victoria is an area of Westminster, Central London in the City of Westminster. It is named after Victoria Station, which is a major transport hub. The station was named after the nearby Victoria Street, opened 1851.
Westminster
Quarter
Westminster is the main settlement of the City of Westminster in Central London, England. It extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street and has many famous landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and much of the West End cultural centre including the entertainment precinct of West End theatre.
Whitehall
Locality
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Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.
Wellington Barracks
- Type: Barracks
- Description: barracks of the British Army in Westminster, London
- Categories: military installation, residential building, and building
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.49999° or 51° 30′ northLongitude
-0.13765° or 0° 8′ 16″ westOpen location code
9C3XFVX6+XWOpenStreetMap ID
way 26741004OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=barracksWikidata ID
Q3567182
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Wellington Barracks” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “倫敦的威靈頓軍營”
- Chinese: “威靈頓兵房”
- Chinese: “惠灵顿军营”
- Chinese: “惠靈頓軍營”
- French: “Wellington Barracks”
- Hebrew: “קסרקטיני ולינגטון”
- Japanese: “ウェリントン・バラックス”
- Japanese: “ウェリントン兵舎”
- Japanese: “ウェリントン駐屯地”
- Slovenian: “Wellington Barracks”
- Swedish: “Wellington Barracks”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wellington Barracks”. Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.