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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England.

City of Westminster
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The place

The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It contains a large part of central London, including most of the West End, such as the major shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street, and the entertainment district of Soho. Many London landmarks are within the borough, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Westminster Cathedral, 10 Downing Street, and Trafalgar Square.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to City of Westminster

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 21 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km
  • London → City of Westminster
    1 km · quickest by road, 8 min · £0
  • Luton, Luton → City of Westminster
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £5–6
  • London, Essex → City of Westminster
    1 km · quickest by road, 8 min · £0
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for City of Westminster

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for City of Westminster. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.

From Wikivoyage: London/Soho, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  5. 05
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    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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Around it

Next door to City of Westminster

City of Westminster is 3 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.