Victoria Embankment Gardens
The Victoria Embankment Gardens are a series of gardens on the north side of the River Thames between Blackfriars Bridge and Westminster Bridge in London.Photo: Alexrk2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: park in London, England, UK
- Address: Victoria Embankment, London
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and Cleopatra’s Needle.
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.
Cleopatra’s Needle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of a pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, that were moved from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria, in Egypt, in the 19th century.
London Eye
Ferris wheel
Photo: Khamtran, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 over three million visitors annually. London Eye is situated 1,900 feet south of Victoria Embankment Gardens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Covent Garden and St Clement Danes.
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.
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.
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 Boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster.
Victoria Embankment Gardens
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50862° or 51° 30′ 31″ northLongitude
-0.12104° or 0° 7′ 16″ westOperator
City of WestminsterOpen location code
9C3XGV5H+CHOpenStreetMap ID
way 4254099OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q7926695
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Victoria Embankment Gardens” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حدائق فيكتوريا إمبانكمينت”
- Chinese: “維多利亞堤岸花園”
- Chinese: “維多利亞路堤花園”
- Chinese: “英国皇家空军亨洛基地”
- Chinese: “英國皇家空軍亨洛基地”
- Italian: “Victoria Embankment Gardens”
- Japanese: “ヴィクトリア・エンバンクメント・ガーデンズ”
- Lithuanian: “Viktorijos krantines sodai”
- Spanish: “Jardines Victoria Embankment”
- Spanish: “Victoria Embankment Gardens”
- Turkish: “Victoria Embankment Gardens”
- Welsh: “Victoria Embankment Gardens”
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