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Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum, London

A branch of the Imperial War Museum, the Cabinet War Rooms preserves the underground corridors and rooms from which Churchill and the cabinet directed the war against Hitler and the Nazis, maintained almost exactly as they were left in 1945.

A branch of the Imperial War Museum, the Cabinet War Rooms preserves the underground corridors and rooms from which Churchill and the cabinet directed the war against Hitler and the Nazis, maintained almost exactly as they were left in 1945. Newly-opened in 2004, the attached Churchill Museum is the world's first permanent museum dedicated to the life and wartime achievements of Sir Winston Churchill, recently voted the Greatest Briton.


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About Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum

 Clive Steps, King Charles St SW1A 2AQ

 +44 20 7930 69

 cwr.iwm.org.uk

Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum and Nearby Sights on Map

Churchill War Rooms

The Churchill Museum is the world's first permanent museum dedicated to the life and wartime achievements of Sir Winston Churchill, 'the Greatest Briton'

10 Downing Street

10 Downing Street has been the official London residence and office of the British Prime Minister since Sir Robert Walpole moved here in 1735

Whitehall

Whitehall runs from Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square, and is the site of several British government buildings, statues and monuments

St. Margaret's Church

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey is the traditional coronation, wedding and burial church of Royalty, with a thousand year old history dating back to 10th century Benedictine monks

St. James's Park

Banqueting House

The Banqueting House is now all that remains of Tudor Whitehall Palace, the royal residence from 1530 till it was destroyed by fire in 1698

Big Ben

The 13-ton 4-faced iconic bell, named after Benjamin Hall who was commissioner of works when the tower was completed in 1858, has gilded periphals surrounding the dials which are 7 metre in diameter

The Jewel Tower

The Jewel Tower across the road from the Houses of Parliament is the only part of the original Palace of Westminster still standing, apart from the Westminster Hall

Henry VII's Ladys Chapel

Described as the wonder of the entire world, this chapel at the eastern end of Westminster Abbey is a breathtakingly beautiful masterpiece of medieval architecture