Local Attractions
1) Walking Distance
- Carling Apollo Hammersmith
- Earls court and Olympia exhibition centres
- Major trade and consumer shows and exhibitions
- Lyric Hammersmith
- Plush Victorian interior. Main and Studio theatres
- The Queen's Club
- Premier lawn tennis and racquets club, hosts the Stella Artois Championships in June. Founded in 1886
- Riverside Studios
- Renound arts and media centre: TV productions, theatre, films and special events.
- The Old Ship, The Dove, The Blue Anchor, The Rutland, The Crabtree and other traditional pubs by the river with a variety of food.
- River Cafe
- Famous Italian restaurant by the river
- Hammersmith Irish Centre
- London's premier centre for Irish art and music: big name concerts and arts.
- Kensington, Sons of the River Rowing Club; and Corinthians Sailing Club
- Rowing and Sailing Clubs
- Close to the traditional pubs by the river. There are the Furnivall
Sculling Auriol
- POLSK (Polish) Centre
- For Polish arts and culture, concerts, plays, dances and Polish
restaurant and cafe.
- Shepherd's Bush Empire
- BBC Backstage Tours
- Tours and free TV show tickets at BBC's television centre
- Museum of Fulham Palace
- Historic home of the Bishops of London
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- Westfield Shopping Center (largest inner-city mall in Europe)
- Kew Gardens
- Natural History Museum
- Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum
- London Wetland Centre
- Science Museum
- Harrods
- Kensington Palace
- Albert Hall
- Hyde Park
- Piccadilly Circus
- Westend Theatreland
- Trafalgar Square
- Tate and Tate Modern Galleries
- Westminster Abbey
- St Paul's Cathedral
- London Aquarium
- London Zoo
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- Madame Tussaud's and Planatarium
- Oxford Street shopping world
- Chelsea harbour Design centre - nearly 80 shouw rooms for leading
interior designers and decorators
- Buckingham Palace
- Portobello Market
- Covent Garden
- Houses of Pariament and Big Ben
- The London Eye
- British Museum
- IMAX Cinema (3D cinema)
- Wimbledon Tennis Club
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Windsor Castle
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Lego Land
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Thorpe Park
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Hampton Court
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Chessington World of Adventure
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