Lonely Planet London (Travel Guide)

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by  Peter Dragicevich

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Top Sights features provide in-depth
coverage of the city’s very best sights.
easy-to-use
sections
TOWER OF LONDON
Plan Your Trip
Look for these symbols to quickly identify listings:
Your planning tool kit 1 SIGHTS 3 ENTERTAINMENT
Photos, lists and suggestions to
5 7
help you create your perfect trip. EATING SHOPPING
6 DRINKING & 2 SPORTS &
NIGHTLIFE ACTIVITIES
Explore
All reviews are ordered in our authors’ preference,
Your complete city guide starting with their most preferred option. Additionally:
Top Sights features, in-depth Sights are arranged in the geographic order that
reviews and local tips. we suggest you visit them and, within this order, by
author preference.
Eating and Sleeping reviews are ordered by price
Understand range (budget, midrange, top end) and, within these
ranges, by author preference.
Get more from your trip
Learn about the big picture, so you These symbols and abbreviations give vital
can make sense of the city. information for each listing:
Must-visit recommendation
Survival Guide Sustainable or green recommendation
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i Internet access d double rooms
W Wi-fi access d m dorm beds
full-colour s Swimming pool q quad rooms
map section v Vegetarian selection r rooms
E English-language menu s single rooms
c Family-friendly ste suites
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Plan Your Trip 1
London
“All you’ve got to do is decide to go
and the hardest part is over.
So go!”
TONY WHEELER, COFOUNDER – LONELY PLANET
THIS EDITION WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY
Peter Dragicevich, Steve Fallon, Emilie Filou, Damian Harper
CCoonntteennttss
PPllaann Y Yoouurr T Trriipp page 1 4
Welcome to London ........4 If You Like... ....................26 Eating ...........................44
London’s Top 16...............6 Month by Month ............29 Drinking & Nightlife....52
What’s New .....................17 With Kids ........................33 Entertainment ............56
Need to Know ................18 Like a Local ....................36 Shopping .......................61
First Time London .........20 For Free ..........................38 Sports & Activities ....65
Getting Around ..............22 Museums & Gay & Lesbian .............68
Galleries .......................40
Top Itineraries ...............24
Explore London 70
Neighbourhoods Clerkenwell, Shoreditch Greenwich &
at a Glance ....................72 & Spitalfields ...............196 South London .............268
The West End .................76 East London .................213 Richmond, Kew
& Hampton Court .......288
The City ........................134 Camden &
North London .............230 Day Trips from
The South Bank ...........156
Notting Hill & London ........................303
Kensington &
Hyde Park ......................174 West London ................255 Sleeping ......................318
Understand London 335
London Today .............336 Literary London ...........361 The Music Scene .........372
History .........................338 Theatre & Dance ........365 Film & Media ................375
Architecture ................356 Art & Fashion ..............368
Survival Guide 379
Transport ....................380 Directory A–Z ..............387 Index ............................395
London Maps 403
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A London icon at the
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Camden & East London
North London
p213
p230
Clerkenwell,
Shoreditch&
Spitalfields
p196
Notting Hill
& West London The West
The City
p255 End p134
p76
The South
Bank
Kensington p156
& Hyde Park
p174
Greenwich
& South London
p268
Richmond, Kew
& Hampton Court
p288
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Welcome to
London
One of the world’s most visited
cities, London has something for
everyone: from history and culture
to fine food and good times.
Time Travel Ethnic Diversity
London is immersed in history, with more This city is very multicultural, with a third
than its share of mind-blowing antiquity. of all Londoners foreign born, represent-
London’s buildings are eye-catching mile- ing 270 different nationalities. What unites
stones in the city’s unique and compelling them and visitors alike is the English
biography, and a great many of them – the language, for this is both our tongue’s
Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Big birthplace and its epicentre. These cultures
Ben – are instantly familiar landmarks. season the culinary aromas on London’s
There’s more than enough innovation (the streets, the often exotic clothing people
Shard, the London Eye, the planned Garden wear and the music they listen to. London’s
Bridge) to put a crackle in the air, but it diverse cultural dynamism makes it among
never drowns out London’s well-preserved, the world’s most international cities. And
centuries-old narrative. Architectural gran- diversity reaches intrinsically British
deur rises all around you in the West End, institutions too; the British and Victoria &
ancient remains dot the City and charming Albert Museums have collections as varied
pubs punctuate the banks of the Thames. as they are magnificent, while flavours at
Take your pick. centuries-old Borough Market now run the
full gourmet and cosmopolitan spectrum.
Art & Culture
A Tale of Two Cities
A tireless innovator of art and culture, Lon-
don is a city of ideas and the imagination. London is as much about wide-open spaces
Londoners have always been fiercely inde- and leafy escapes as it is high-density,
pendent thinkers (and critics), but until not sight-packed exploration. Central London
so long ago people were suspicious of any- is where you will find the major museums,
thing they considered avant-garde. That’s galleries and most iconic sights, but visit
all in the past now, and the city’s creative Hampstead Heath or the new Queen Eliza-
milieu is streaked with left-field attitude, beth Olympic Park to escape the crowds
from theatrical innovation to contemporary and view the city’s greener hues up close. Or
art, pioneering music, writing and design. venture even further out to Kew Gardens,
Food in all its permutations has become Richmond or Hampton Court Palace for
almost an obsession in certain circles. excellent panoramas of riverside London.
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Why I Love London
By Steve Fallon, Author
Like most Londoners, I revel in all our familiar landmarks – Big Ben, Tower Bridge, the murky
Thames, the London Eye. I still thank the former government that made some of the greatest
museums and art galleries in the world free to one and all. The choice of restaurants, bars
and clubs is legion, and what’s not to love about a city with more lush parkland than any other
world capital? But the one thing that sets my adopted city apart from any other is its amaz-
ing tolerance. ‘As long as you don’t scare the horses, mate, you’ll be all right here,’ I was told
when I arrived here more than 20 years ago. Guess what? It still hasn’t happened.
For more about our authors, see p448.
Top: Tower Bridge (p145) and the Shard (p164)
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London’s
Top 16
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British Museum (p81) National Gallery (p89)
1 With six million visitors trooping 2 This superlative collection of (largely
through its doors annually, the Brit- pre-modern) art at the heart of Lon-
ish Museum in Bloomsbury is Britain’s don is one of the largest anywhere, and
most visited attraction. You could spend a roll-call of some of the world’s most
a lifetime in this vast and hallowed collec- outstanding artistic compositions. With
tion of artefacts, art and age-old antiquity, highlights including work from Leonardo
and still make daily discoveries (admission da Vinci, Michelangelo, Gainsborough,
is free, so you could do just that, if so in- Constable, Turner, Monet, Renoir and Van
clined). Otherwise, join everyone else on Gogh, it’s a bravura performance and one
the highlights tours (or eyeOpener tours) not to be missed. The onsite restaurants
for a précis of the museum’s treasures. and cafes are also exceptional, rounding
1T he West End out a terrific experience and putting the
icing on an already eye-catching cake.
1T he West End
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