Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church is one of the United Kingdom's most important religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for British monarchs. The building itself was a Benedictine monastery until the monasteries was dissolved in 1539. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English monarchs have been in Westminster Abbey. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
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Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, 11.7 miles south west of central London. It was the residence of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey until Wolsey fell out of favor with King Henry VIII, who then confiscated the property for himself. In the following century, King William III's massive rebuilding and expansion work, which was intended to rival Versailles, destroyed much of the Tudor influence, adding Baroque character. While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings. King George II was the last monarch to reside in the palace.
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Kew Gardens is a botanical gardenf ounded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park in Middlesex, England, its living collections include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The Osborne House is former royal residence designed by Prince Albert in 1851 in the Italian Renaissance style as a summer retreat for himself and Queen Victoria.. Queen Victoria died at the house in January 1901.
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Lying beneath the towering walls of Warwick Castle, these half-timbered cottages seem to symbolize the ancient dependence of the town on its medieval lords. The town contains a wealth of architecture from many centuries, including St. Mary's Church, Lord Leycester's Hospital and two of the old towns gates.
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