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Places of interest in WC2
London Underground stations along Victoria Embankment are Westminster, Embankment, Charing Cross, Temple and Blackfriars. The former Aldwych tube station was also located nearby. London Bus routes 388 and N550 are the only bus routes along the Embankment, perhaps because of the proliferation of tube stations along the route. Victoria Embankment was also the southern end of the Kingsway Tramway Subway.
Since 1675 the site of the cross has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. That original position of the cross is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other previous measurement points (such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme). Furthermore, all residential roads in Greater London have the houses numbered such that number 1 is at the end closer to Charing Cross as the crow flies. Charing Cross is marked on contemporary maps as a road junction, though it was previously also a postal address denoting the stretch of road between Great Scotland Yard and Trafalgar Square. Since 1 January 1931 this section of road has been designated as part of the Whitehall thoroughfare.[5]
The station is in London fare zone 1. On the District and Circle lines, the station is between Westminster and Temple, and, on the Northern and Bakerloo lines, it is between Charing Cross and Waterloo. Train frequencies vary throughout the day, but generally District line trains operate every 2?6 minutes from approximately 05:30 to 00:40 eastbound and 05:50 to 00:35 westbound; they are supplemented by Circle line trains every 8?12 minutes from approximately 05:35 to 00:20 clockwise and 05:50 to 00:25 anticlockwise. Northern line trains operate every 2?5 minutes from approximately 05:40 to 00:40 southbound and 05:40 to 00:40 northbound. Bakerloo line trains operate every 2?5 minutes from approximately 06:00 to 00:35 southbound and 05:40 to 00:30 northbound.[18][19]
Originally plans were made and land purchased for this asylum to be built in proximity close to the existing 1st Middlesex County Asylum at Hanwell on ground that lies just on the other side of the Grand Union Canal. Perhaps the number of other asylums already in the area led to the decision to have it built elsewhere. The architect was Samuel Daukes, the design of which was based on the advice of John Conolly, the superintendent of the 1st Middlesex Asylum. It opened on the 17th of July, 1851 and was officially referred to as the 2nd Middlesex County Asylum with William Charles Hood (1824-1870) being its first medical superintendent.[2]
Looking north from eastbound through platform 1
Information by Wikipedia.com
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