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The Anglican church of St Margaret, Westminster,historically part of the hundred of Ossulstone in the county of Middlesex[http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/WestminsterStMargaret/index.html Genuki],is situated in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square, and is the parish church[http://www.westminster-abbey (...)
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, as seen from the roof of the Palace of Westminster. Parliament Square is a square outside the north-western end of the Palace of Westminster in London. It features a large open green area in the middle, with a group of trees to its west. (...)
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Westminster is an area of Central London, United Kingdom, within the City of Westminster. It is the location of the Palace of Westminster which houses the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Westminster is situated south west of the City of London and half a mile (0.8 km) south west of Charing Cross. (...)
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The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 646 members, who are known as "Members of Parliament" or MPs (...)
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The Members' Lobby is a hallway in the Palace of Westminster used by members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Members of Parliament may congregate here for discussions while not dealing with other business. The Lobby is situated next to the House of Commons (the lower house), close to the central lobby, and is off-limits to members of the public during voting sessions (...)
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The British tomb of The Unknown Warrior holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during World War I.Neil Hanson, ''The Unknown Soldier'', Chapters 23 & 24, 2005 Doubleday, London He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on November 11, 1920, the earliest such tomb honouring the unknown dead of World War I (...)
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due to the number of poets, playwrights, and writers now buried and commemorated there. The first person to be interred there was Geoffrey Chaucer, whose burial in the abbey owed more to his position as Clerk of Works of the Palace of Westminster than to his fame as a writer. However, the erection of a magnificent tomb by Nicholas Brigham to Chaucer in the middle of the sixteenth century and (...)
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:''For other items relating to Westminster, see Westminster (disambiguation)'' Westminster is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. The station is served by the Circle, District and Jubilee lines. On the Circle and District lines the station is between St. James's Park and Embankment stations. On the Jubilee line it is between Green Park and Waterloo stations (...)
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The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. It alone has parliamentary sovereignty, conferring it ultimate power over all other Political bodies. At its head is the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II (...)
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is one of only two surviving sections of the medieval royal Palace of Westminster, the other being Westminster Hall. It was built in approximately 1365 to house the treasures of Edward III and its alternative name was the "King's Privy Wardrobe". It is a small three storey building constructed of stone, which stands across the road from the current Palace of Westminster, home of the British (...)
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