London - Places of Interest guide

Places of Interest

From Zoos and ships to the Wimbledon Tennis Museum and The London Dungeon.

Cutty Sark

Greenwich, London, SE10 9BG Tel: +44 (0)20 8858 3445   The Cutty Sark (963 tons gross) was launched at Dumbarton, Clydeside on 22 November 1869. Her principal objective was to become the fastest back in the annual race to bring home the new season's tea from China, a goal she never achieved due to changing circumstances in the tea trade.

HMS Belfast

Morgan's Lane, Tooley Street, London, SE1 2JH Tel: +44 (0)20 7940 6300 Launched in 1938, HMS Belfast was the Royal Navy's biggest and most powerful warship during the Second World War, with a crew of over 950 officers and men.

London Aquarium

County Hall, Riverside Building, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB Tel: +44 (0)20 7967 8000 Situated in County Hall on the South Bank of the Thames is the London Aquarium one of Europe's largest and most spectacular displays of aquatic life.

London Wetland Centre

The Lodge, Queen Elizabeth Walk, Barnes, London, SW13 9WT Tel: +44 (0)20 8409 4400 One of Europe's most ambitious and exciting wildlife projects was opened by WWT in the spring of 2000. London Wetland Centre, created out of a disused Victorian reservoir site adjacent to the Thames, is now a haven for wildfowl and other wetland wildlife.

London Zoo

Regents Park, London, NW1 4RY Tel: +44 (0)20 7722 3333 With over 12,000 animals to see why not take a walk on the wild side at London Zoo? Get close to some of the world's most fascinating animals, from Asian Lions and Sloth Bears to giant Seychelles Millipedes.

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

Church Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 5AE Tel: +44 (0)20 8946 6131 Visit the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum for a glimpse of how the gentle game of lawn tennis, once all the rage on the lawns of Victorian England and with origins that go far back to medieval royal tennis, has become a multi-million dollar professional sport, played all over the world.