Regency Hot Spots: 8 Day Tour of London

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PLAN FOR VIEWING LONDON IN EIGHT DAYS By pursuing the following method the stranger will be enabled to take a cursory view of every remarkable object in a short space of time To inspect them all minutely would of course occupy many weeks Each day's excursion commences at Charing cross as a great majority of the visiters to the British metropolis fix their resi dence in that vicinity The various objects are described in other parts of the work FIRST DAY Statue of Charles I at Charing cross Ad miralty Horse Guards Whitehall Chapel Council Of fice Richmond Terrace Board of Control Westminster Hall House of Commons House of Lords St Margaret's Church Westminster Abbey Westminster School John the Evangelist Penitenitary Vauxhall Bridge Vauxhall Gardens Lambeth Church Lambeth Palace Westminster Bridge Charing cross St SECOND DAY St James's Park Terraces on the site of Carlton Palace Marlborough House Gower House King's Palace Royal Mews at Pimlico Chelsea Hospital Royal Military Asylum Return by Eaton Square Bel grave Square St George's Hospital Hyde Park Corner Entrance to the King's Palace Entrance to Hyde Park м
Green Park St James's Palace British Institution St James's Square National Gallery Athenæum Club House United Service Club House Charing Cross THIRD DAY Union Club House Menagerie in the Old Mews College of Physicians Water Colour Exhibi tion University Club House Society of British Artists Italian Opera House Haymarket Theatre Naval and Mili tary Club House St Philip's Chapel County Fire Office St James's Church Burlington Arcade Devonshire House Hyde Park Statue of Achilles Serpentine River Kensington Palace and Gardens Return by Bayswater and Park Lane Earl Grosvenor's Gallery Dorchester House Chesterfield House Piccadilly Charing Cross FOURTH DAY Leicester Square Miss Linwood's Ex hibition Panorama Piccadilly Bond Street Western Exchange Berkeley Square Lansdowne House Gros venor Square Portman Square Bryanstone Square Mon tague Square Horse Bazaar Mary le bone Church Zoological Gardens St Cathe Round the Regent's Park rine's Hospital Colosseum Diorama Park Square and Crescent Statue of the Duke of Kent Portland Place All Souls Church Cavendish Square Hanover Square St George's Church Regent Street Hanover Chapel Regent's Quadrant Charing Cross FIFTH DAY St Martin's Church St Giles's Church Soho Square Bazaar Royal Bazaar and British Dio London University Bedford Square rama Square St Pancras Church Square Bloomsbury Square Garden Theatre Euston Tavistock Square Russell British Museum Covent Drury Lane Theatre Market Charing Cross Covent Garden SIXTH DAY Northumberland House Somerset House St King's College St Mary's Church Panorama Clement's Church Temple Bar Temple Church and Gar dens St Bride's Church New Fleet Market Fleet Prison Blackfriars Bridge Splendid Shops on Ludgate Hill St Paul's Cathedral Bow Church Guildhall Mansion House St Stephen's Walbrook Bank Royal Exchange Stock Exchange Auction Mart Excise Of fice Roman Catholic Chapel Moorfields London Institu tion Finsbury Square St Luke's Hospital Charter House West Smithfield St Sepulchre's Newgate
St Andrew's Holborn Hill Lincoln's Inn Lincoln's Inn Fields Surgeon's Hall thence to Charing Cross SEVENTH DAY Proceed as in Sixth Day to Bow Church Cheapside thence to Southwark Bridge London Bridge Monument Billingsgate Fish Market Custom House Tower Mint St Catherine's Docks London Docks Cross the River and visit the Thames Tunnel at Rotherhithe Re cross the River to West India Docks East India Docks Return by the Commercial Road to Leadenhall Street Com mercial Hall Corn Exchanges East India House St Mi chael's Cornhill Return by Cheapside Ludgate Hill and Strand EIGHTH DAY Westminster Bridge Astley's Theatre Orphan Asylum Bethlehem Hospital Philanthropic In stitution Obelisk School for the Blind Surrey Theatre Magdalen Asylum Deaf and Dumb Asylum King's Bench Prison British and Foreign School Guy's Hos pital St Thomas's Hospital St Saviour's Church Re turn by Union Street across Blackfriars Road Coburg Theatre St John's Church Waterloo Road Waterloo Bridge Return along the Strand to Charing Cross Leigh, S. (1830). Leigh’s New Picture of London;: Or, A View of the Political, Religious, Medical, Literary, Municipal, Commercial, and Moral State of the British Metropolis; Presenting a Luminous Guide to the Stranger, on All Subjects Connected with General Information, Business Or Amusement. To which are Subjoined a Description of the Environs, and a Plan for Viewing London in Eight Days. United Kingdom: Samuel Leigh.

What would you add or subtract from this list? I have to say, these were likely very full days!

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