Victoria Tower Gardens
Gardenvisit Editorial
Victoria Tower Gardens were made in the 1870s as part of Joseph Bazalgette's creation of a new sewer system for London. Previously, the site had been occupied by wharves. The gardens provide an excellent view of the Victoria Tower, in which parliamentary archives are kept. A row of London Plane trees overhangs the river, linking landscape to riverscape. The gardens are used for 'political' sculpture. Rodin's sculpture The Burghers of Calais (celebrating heroism) and a statue of the suffragette leader, Emmeline Pankhurst. The Buxton Memorial Fountain was moved here from its original site in Parliament Square. It is a commoration of the emancipation of slaves in 1834.
Victoria Tower Gardens is on the London Gardens Walk and included in the eBook guide to the London Gardens Walk
Opening times - Free entry at all times
Local Hotels
Hotels within 30km as the crow flies from this garden.-
The Ethorpe Hotel (26km away)
From £67.50 to £116.00
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