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Horseferry Road

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Established by the Methodist Church in 1851, Westminster College occupied the site until it relocated to Oxford in 1959. Today their Oxford site is the Harcourt Hill Campus of Oxford Brookes University, but the archives and art collections of Westminster College can still be viewed on the site. Their
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Horseferry Road has been the site of numerous government buildings including Horseferry House, which was the location of No. 5 (London) Regional Fire Control Centre during
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In 1734, plans were drawn up for a bridge to replace the ferry. An Act of Parliament was passed in 1736, and the money was raised by lottery and grants.
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was finished first, resulting in the gradual decline of the ferry. It was eventually replaced on 10 November 1862, when the first
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site on Horseferry Road meanwhile is now the location for the Channel 4 Headquarters, which were built there in 1994.
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Administrative Headquarters was located on Horseferry Road. They rented the buildings from
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The road is designated part of the B323 road, along with Greycoat Place, Artillery Row and
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The road takes its name from the ferry which existed on the site of what is now
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throughout the war while the college was evacuated to Richmond.
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was opened. It quickly deteriorated, and was replaced in 1932.
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is at no. 95; this was where the inquiry into the sinking of
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and Greycoat Place. It is perhaps best known as the site of
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The south end of Horseferry road, facing south, October 2007
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changed the plans for the position of the bridge, and
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Jan Griffier
Lambeth Palace
St Paul's Cathedral

City of Westminster
central London
Millbank
City of Westminster Magistrates' Court
Broadwood and Sons
Gas Light and Coke Company
British Standards Institution
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Burberry Group
Environment Agency
National Probation Service
Department for Transport
Channel 4
Marsham Street
Home Office
Buckingham Gate
Lambeth Bridge
Archbishop of Canterbury
Thames
Westminster Palace
Lambeth Palace
King James II
Princess Augusta
George III
Parliament

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