Places Edited by Steve 55

A former groundskeeper’s cottage, now famous for being the main location of a hit British comedy game show.

This ancient spring in central London was featured in a Peter Pan story.

The Cold War remnants of a nuclear missile launch site in the Northamptonshire countryside.

The history of West London’s water supply.

The only statue of a royal mistress in all of London.

These oversized fruit sculptures honor the contributions of the Windrush generation.

This tribute to the fictional detective stands at the famous literary character's address.

This park features a wooden causeway preserved since the Neolithic era.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

Some of the best renditions of traditional British dishes can be found on the site of a 15th-century inn.

Grab a pint of British-brewed ale or cider and a hot roast pork bap at this quintessential London pub.

Once a 19th-century refuge for immigrants, this pub has hosted performances by Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys.

The last vestiges of a magnificent Victorian-era train station can be found in this pub.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

The extra platform at Gloucester Road has been used for art displays for over 25 years.

A lost World War II military camp and post-war suburb swallowed by the woods.

Tony Blair's garden gnome and a Howitzer shell-turned-flower-pot are on display in this deconsecrated 13th-century church.

This curiously modern carving of St. Peter wears wellies.

Two copies of a rejected Victorian-era lamp design still stand along the Thames River.

In honor of a local spinster's dying wish, this chapel harbors an eerily lifelike wax effigy.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

This blue plaque memorializes the first person to be murdered on a railway train.

Tucked away in a London Tube station, this 1920s linear clock shows the time across the world all at once.