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NEW COACH PARKING FACILITY on the MALL • Tourist Coaches Coming to Buckingham Palace Will Enter the Mall Via Admiralty Arch NEW COACH PARKING FACILITY ON THE MALL • Tourist coaches coming to Buckingham Palace will enter The Mall via Admiralty Arch. Having parked in the coach park, tourists can then take the short walk along the Mall with the magnificent view of The Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace ahead of them – the perfect approach to one of London’s biggest tourist attractions • The Mall is the perfect location for other royal attractions including St James’s Palace and Clarence House. In addition, it is ideally situated for St James’s Park and other major attractions such as Horse Guard’s Parade, The Household Cavalry Museum, Trafalgar Square, the Churchill War Rooms and the Guards Museum and Chapel • New secure, on-line booking facility and easy • 8 coach parking bays available access/exit arrangements • Special introductory rate of £8 plus VAT** for • Open 9am – 6pm (or dusk if earlier) 2.5 hours parking including drive through Monday – Saturday* permit *subject to closure of Mall for special events/emergencies. • Available to book in 2.5 hour slots **Special introductory rate for drive through only permit of £6 plus VAT. Introductory rates will apply for the first year of operation and will then be subject for use at any time to review by The Royal Parks REGISTER AND START BOOKING NOW www.royalparks.org.uk/coachparking Y D NATIONAL ILL U D K GALLERY A S CC E I T t P E O PICCADILLY CIRCUS TRE 3.6.9.12.13.15 R F M S 10 mins walk from St James’s Park N 23. 88. 94.139 THE RITZ Y Y E RM O A HOTEL JE 159. 453. GE RK H R A T N 8.9.14.19.22.38 GREEN PARK S T Y EE I T R N 7 mins walk from St James’s Park T ST MARK TRAFALGAR ’ SQUARE S II ST S RLE P A R L CH E E T A E C S T E T ET ST JAMES’S RE J ST A SQUARE NELSON’S M COLUMN CHARING CROSS ER E RYD 10 mins walk from St James’s Park S ’ LY S IL D S W A T C AT C R ET PI RE P T E E S L ACE G R RR E A TE Q SE KIN L OU T C H MALL L O N U L LTO E CAR GALLERIES E MA O E ALL ADMIRALTY N P ARCH ’ S THE ICA GRASPAN W MEMORIAL A CE L RA TER K E OUS 3.11.12. 24.58. 87 N H LTO DUKE OF YORK 88.91.159.453 CAR MEMORIAL JAMES COOK STATUE THE GREEN PARK NATIONAL W GEORGE VI POLICE OLD ADMIRALTY STATUE MEMORIAL H BUILDINGS ST JAMES’S I PALACE MARLBOROUGH QUEEN ELIZABETH, T HOUSE THE QUEEN MOTHER ARTILLERY E STORNOWAY STATUE MEMORIAL HA HOUSE MAR QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOUSEHOLD HYDE PARK L MEMORIAL THE ROYAL CAVALRY CORNER L NAVAL DIVISION MUSEUM L 12 mins walk from B O MEMORIAL St James’s Park R H LANCASTER OUG HOUSE S L O TAB L MA THE STOREYARD R H E S L CLARENCE AND PARK OFFICE VISCOUNT TH E E HOUSE R HORSE WOLSELEY D Y GUARDS STATUE 9.10.14.19.22 A G i PARADE R 52.74.137.144 U D INN THE PARK A R RESTAURANT R HORSE GUARDS D GUARDS D EARL DRINKING MEMORIAL ROBERTS FOUNTAIN S STATUE R O MARLBOROUGH A GATE D LORD KITCHENER LORD STATUE SWIRE FOUNTAIN MOUNTBATTEN CANADA STATUE GATE BANDSTAND 3.11.12.24.53.87 88.159.453. C ONSTITUT ION H MEMORIAL WOMEN OF ILL GARDENS DUCK ISLAND WORLD WAR II MONUMENT SOUTH & WEST DOWN AFRICA GATES ING ST REET DUCK ISLAND FOREIGN & COTTAGE COMMONWEALTH ST JAMES’S PARK OFFICE QUEEN VICTORIA BLUE PELICAN ROCK MEMORIAL BRIDGE BALI TIFFANY FOUNTAIN MEMORIAL MEMORIAL GARDENS KIN CHANGING G CHAR OF THE CLIVE LES STRE GUARD STATUE ET WEST ISLAND BUCKINGHAM CENOTAPH PALACE AUSTRALIA GATE CASCADE FOUNTAIN IMPERIAL WAR CHURCHILL MUSEUM 3.11.24.87.88 MUSEUM HM TREASURY N2.N3.N11.N36 N44.N52.N87 BUCKINGHAM BOY GATE LODGE STATUE 3.11.12.53.87 88.159.453 DCAGE WALK S INSTITUTE OF BIR P E MECHANICAL WESTMINSTER T S ENGINEERS 6 mins walk from St James’s Park T QUEEN’S GALLERY I E P GAT K C HAM O G C OL D QU EEN STRE ET KIN E BUC WELLINGTON BARRACKS 12.53.148.159. GUARDS AT GATE 211.453 CHAPEL S G ’ E S ’ VICTORIA GUARDS 9 mins walk from St James’s Park MUSEUM ANN REY N E O 8. 16. 38. 52. 73. 82 E T PARLIAMENT 185. 239. 507. C1. C10 U S Q SQUARE BIG BEN & HOUSES .uk o OF PARLIAMENT ST JAMES’S PARK .chacha.c w 3 mins walk from St James’s Park WALKING DISTANCE (MINUTES) 3 SPRING 2013 ww A BRIEF HISTORY 1827 John Nash appointed to carry FAMOUS LANDMARKS ST JAMES’S PALACE was built by Henry DUCK ISLAND is a nature reserve for PARK MANAGEMENT Underground out present landscape in informal style VIII alongside his newly acquired deer park the park’s bird collection. It also houses the station Deckchair hire Restaurant Park features Mark Wasilewski Information OF ST JAMES’S PARK for George IV BUCKINGHAM PALACE has served as in 1532. It is still the official Royal Court. water treatment facilities and pumps for the lake and fountain. The St James’s Park Office 1531 Acquired by Henry VIII and Court of the official London residence of Britain’s ICA GALLERIES are home to the best new 1905 Queen Victoria Memorial The Storeyard, Horse Guards Road Public access sites St James established sovereigns since 1837. Changing of the art and culture from Britain and around the INN THE PARK Restaurant is where you Bus stop www.royalparks.org.uk/coachparkingJubilee Greenway Garden created Guard takes place at 11:30am every day St James’s Park, London SW1A 2BJ Disabled toilets Information (opening world. can feast on the best of British food using in the summer, and alternate days in the i periods vary) 1603 Park laid out for James I with the freshest seasonal produce from small T: 0300 061 2353 Statue menagerie and duck decoys winter. MALL GALLERIES is central London’s independent producers. focal point for new figurative art by living E: [email protected] Non public CLARENCE HOUSE was designed by John British artists. THE CHURCHILL WAR ROOMS are Cycle hire Public toilets Police station 1660 Park relandscaped for Charles II in Nash and built between 1825 and 1827 for access sites formal French style dedicated to the life of the ‘greatest Briton’. CONTACTING the Duke of Clarence, later William IV. It HORSE GUARDS PARADE is the park’s The secret underground headquarters were POLICE was the London home to the late Queen ceremonial parade ground and is the scene Jubilee Walkway 1663 Horseguards constructed the nerve centre of Britain’s war effort. Memorial Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. of Trooping the Colour on the Queen’s Pedestrian Cycling T: 999 for emergencies. official birthday in June. The Lifeguard THE GUARDS MUSEUM contains a National Rail Kiosk 1667 Exotic birds introduced, T: 101 for other calls. crossing permitted QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL is a 25 change takes place here at 11:00am daily and wealth of information and artefacts relating including pelicans You can also report a crime online at metre (82ft) high edifice by the sculptor 10:00am on Sundays. to the five regiments of Foot Guards. Thomas Brock and the architect Aston www.online.met.police.uk 1703 Buckingham House developed which Webb. The whole edifice and statues are ST JAMES’S PARK LAKE is the Cycle parking Information Children’s The park is open from 5am until midnight later became the official Royal residence of white marble, of which a generous 2,300 centrepiece of the park’s romantic play area all year round. Diana, Princess tons were used. landscape. It is the home to the park’s of Wales’ collection of waterfowl including the famous Coach Drinking Fountain Memorial Walk pelicans. parking Fountain www.royalparks.org.uk.
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