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Westminster

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Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames. [1]

87 relations: Abbey, BBC, Book frontispiece, British Empire, Buckingham Palace, Caxton Hall, Central London, Charles Booth (social reformer), Circle line (London Underground), Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency), City and Liberty of Westminster, City of London, City of Westminster, City status in the United Kingdom, Civil parish, Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Commonwealth of Nations, Coronation, County of London, Courts of England and Wales, Devil's Acre, District line, Edward the Confessor, George Peabody, Georgian era, Governance of England, Government of the United Kingdom, Greater London Authority, Green Park, Harold Godwinson, Henry VIII of England, Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, House of Plantagenet, Jubilee line, List of English monarchs, Listed building, London Plan, London Underground, Metonymy, Middlesex, Millbank, Minories, Palace of Westminster, Palace of Whitehall, Parliament of England, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Peabody Trust, Poverty map, Project Gutenberg, Public housing, ..., Public housing in the United Kingdom, Public school (United Kingdom), Quarter session, Reformation, Ribbon development, River Thames, River Tyburn, Royal Courts of Justice, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Royal Parks of London, Royal Peculiar, Slum, Southwark, Spin (propaganda), St James's Palace, St Margaret's, Westminster, St Martin in the Fields (parish), St. James's Park tube station, Street names of Westminster, Thorney Island (London), Tourism in London, United Kingdom constituencies, University of Westminster, Vestry, West End of London, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Bridge, Westminster Cathedral, Westminster City Council, Westminster Court of Burgesses, Westminster School, Westminster St Margaret and St John, Westminster system, Westminster tube station, Whitehall, Winchester, World Heritage site. Expand index (37 more) »

Abbey

An abbey is a complex of buildings used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Book frontispiece

A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page — on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto, page.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Caxton Hall

Caxton Hall is a building on the corner of Caxton Street and Palmer Street, in Westminster, London, England.

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Central London

Central London is the innermost part of London, in the United Kingdom, spanning several boroughs.

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Charles Booth (social reformer)

Charles James Booth (30 March 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an English social researcher and reformer known for his innovative work in documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century.

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Circle line (London Underground)

The Circle line is a London Underground line in a spiralling shape, running from Hammersmith in the west to Edgware Road and then looping around central London back to Edgware Road.

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Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)

Cities of London and Westminster is a constituency returning a single Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons in the United Kingdom Parliament.

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City and Liberty of Westminster

The City and Liberty of Westminster was a unit of local government in the county of Middlesex, England.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.

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City status in the United Kingdom

City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the monarch of the United Kingdom to a select group of communities:, there are 69 cities in the United Kingdom – 51 in England, six in Wales, seven in Scotland and five in Northern Ireland.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter

The Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter was an extra-parochial area, and later civil parish, in the metropolitan area of London, England.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Coronation

A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a crown upon a monarch's head.

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County of London

The County of London was a county of England from 1889 to 1965, corresponding to the area known today as Inner London.

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Courts of England and Wales

The Courts of England and Wales, supported administratively by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in England and Wales.

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Devil's Acre

The Devil's Acre was a notorious slum near Westminster Abbey in Victorian London.

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District line

The District line is a London Underground line that runs from in the east to in west London, where it splits into a number of branches.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (Ēadƿeard Andettere, Eduardus Confessor; 1003 – 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.

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George Peabody

George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an American financier and philanthropist.

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Georgian era

The Georgian era is a period in British history from 1714 to, named eponymously after kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.

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Governance of England

There has not been a government of England since 1707 when the Kingdom of England ceased to exist as a sovereign state, as it merged with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Greater London Authority

The Greater London Authority (GLA) is a top-tier administrative body for Greater London, England.

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Green Park

The Green Park, usually known without the article simply as Green Park, is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson (– 14 October 1066), often called Harold II, was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate

The Holy Trinity Priory, also known as Christchurch Aldgate, was a priory of Austin canons (Black Canons) founded around 1108 by Queen Matilda of England, wife of King Henry I, near Aldgate in London.

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House of Plantagenet

The House of Plantagenet was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France.

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Jubilee line

The Jubilee line is a London Underground line that runs between in east London and in the suburban north-west, via the Docklands, South Bank and West End.

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List of English monarchs

This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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London Plan

The London Plan is the statutory spatial development strategy for the Greater London area in the United Kingdom that is written by the Mayor of London and published by the Greater London Authority.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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Millbank

Millbank is an area of central London in the City of Westminster.

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Minories

Minories (not) is the name of a former civil parish, also known as Minories Holy Trinity, and a street in the City of London, close to the Tower of London.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Palace of Whitehall

The Palace of Whitehall (or Palace of White Hall) at Westminster, Middlesex, was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, except for Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire.

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Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 13th century until 1707, when it became the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Peabody Trust

The Peabody Trust was founded in 1862 as the 'Peabody Donation Fund' and now brands itself simply as Peabody.

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Poverty map

A poverty map is a map which provides a detailed description of the spatial distribution of poverty and inequality within a country.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Public housing in the United Kingdom

Public housing in the United Kingdom provided the majority of rented accommodation in the country until 2011.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

A public school in England and Wales is a long-established, student-selective, fee-charging independent secondary school that caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18, and whose head teacher is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

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Quarter session

The courts of quarter sessions or quarter sessions were local courts traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England (including Wales) from 1388 until 1707, then in 18th-century Great Britain, in the later United Kingdom, and in other dominions of the British Empire.

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Reformation

The Reformation (or, more fully, the Protestant Reformation; also, the European Reformation) was a schism in Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther and continued by Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and other Protestant Reformers in 16th century Europe.

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Ribbon development

Ribbon development is building houses along the routes of communications radiating from a human settlement.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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River Tyburn

The River Tyburn is a river in London, which runs underground from South Hampstead through St James's Park to meet the River Thames by Whitehall Stairs (near Downing Street and Thorney Street, between Millbank Tower and Thames House).

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Royal Courts of Justice

The Royal Courts of Justice, commonly called the Law Courts, is a court building in London which houses the High Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a professional body that accredits professionals within the land, property, construction, and infrastructure sectors worldwide.

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Royal Parks of London

The Royal Parks of London are lands originally owned by the monarchy of the United Kingdom for the recreation, mostly hunting, of the royal family.

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Royal Peculiar

A Royal Peculiar (or Royal Peculier) is a Church of England parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese and the archdiocese in which it lies and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.

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Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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Spin (propaganda)

In public relations and politics, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing a biased interpretation of an event or campaigning to persuade public opinion in favor or against some organization or public figure.

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St James's Palace

St James's Palace is the most senior royal palace in the United Kingdom.

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St Margaret's, Westminster

The Church of St Margaret, Westminster Abbey, is situated in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square, and is the Anglican parish church of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in London.

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St Martin in the Fields (parish)

St Martin in the Fields was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England.

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St. James's Park tube station

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Street names of Westminster

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Westminster.

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Thorney Island (London)

Thorney Island was the eyot (or small island) on the Thames, upstream of medieval London, where Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster (commonly known today as the Houses of Parliament) were built.

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Tourism in London

London is one of the world's leading tourism destinations, and the city is home to an array of famous tourist attractions.

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United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elect one member to a parliament or assembly, with the exception of European Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly constituencies which are multi member constituencies.

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University of Westminster

The University of Westminster is a public university in London, United Kingdom.

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Vestry

A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England and Wales, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry".

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is an area of Central and West London in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Westminster Bridge

Westminster Bridge is a road-and-foot-traffic bridge over the River Thames in London, linking Westminster on the west side and Lambeth on the east side.

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Westminster Cathedral

Westminster Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in London is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

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Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

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Westminster Court of Burgesses

The Westminster Court of Burgesses was established by Act of Parliament in 1585 and abolished in 1900.

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Westminster School

Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school in London, England, located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey.

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Westminster St Margaret and St John

St Margaret was an ancient parish in the City and Liberty of Westminster and the county of Middlesex.

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Westminster system

The Westminster system is a parliamentary system of government developed in the United Kingdom.

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Westminster tube station

Westminster is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster

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