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Smithfield
Greater London, London
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Days out & attractions in Smithfield
Days out around Smithfield – lakes, museums, parks, lidos and more. Each comes with a description, photo, address and map where available.
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🏞️ Lakes & lochs
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🏛️ Museums
Museum of the Order of St John
Clerkenwell Green · 0.1 miles
The Postal Museum
Mount Pleasant · 0.6 miles
Charles Dickens Museum
Mount Pleasant · 0.6 miles
Dr Johnson's House
Bank · 0.6 miles
Gough Square 17, London EC4A 3DE
Oct-Apr: Mo-Sa 11:00-17:00; May-Sep: Mo-Sa 11:00-17:30
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🌳 Parks & gardens
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🏊 Lidos & swimming pools
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🗿 Monuments & memorials
Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
West Smithfield · 0.6 miles
A collection of ceramic tablets in Postman’s Park commemorates ordinary individuals who died while saving others, ensuring their deeds are not forgotten. The monument stands in the City of London, close to West Smithfield, and forms part of the park’s historic setting. Visitors can view the wall of tiles arranged in three visible rows, with the original 24 De Morgan tablets occupying the central row, a second row of later additions above, and a fourth row added in 1908 below. The design includes a 50-foot wooden loggia that shelters the wall, and the tiles record fifty-four incidents ranging from a police officer’s bravery to a schoolboy’s sacrifice. Although the original plan allowed for 120 tablets, work ceased in 1931 with 53 in place; a further tablet was added in 2009, marking the first new addition in 78 years. The memorial’s development began with a proposal by painter-sculptor George Frederic Watts in 1887, later revived by St Botolph’s vicar Henry Gamble in 1898. After Watts’s death, his widow Mary Watts oversaw the project until work stopped in the early 1930s. Subsequent tiles were produced by William De Morgan, Royal Doulton and, more recently, in the Royal Doulton style. Access to the site is via the public pathways of Postman’s Park; wheelchair access is limited, and no admission fee or visitor facilities are recorded. The monument remains open to the public as part of the park’s landscape.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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🏺 Archaeological sites
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🖼️ Galleries
Breese Little
Clerkenwell Green · 0.1 miles
Great Sutton Street 30d, London EC1V 0DU
Eagle Gallery
Clerkenwell · 0.1 miles
Farringdon Road 159, London EC1R 3AL
Tintype
Hatton Garden · 0.1 miles
St Cross Street 18, London EC1N 8UN
WW Gallery
Hatton Garden · 0.1 miles
Hatton Garden 34/35, London EC1N 8DX
The Arts Catalyst
Clerkenwell Green · 0.1 miles
Clerkenwell Road 50-54, London EC1M 5PS
Cabinet Gallery
Barbican · 0.6 miles
Old Street 49-59, London EC1V 9HX
Laura Bartlett Gallery
Gray's Inn · 0.6 miles
Northington Street 10, London WC1N 2JG
Maria Stenfors
Mount Pleasant · 0.6 miles
Wren Street 21, London WC1X 0HF
Arcade
Clerkenwell Green · 0.6 miles
Ancient and Modern
Barbican · 0.6 miles
Whitecross Street 201, London EC1Y 8QP
Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican · 0.6 miles
Mo-We,Sa-Su 10:00-18:00; Th-Fr 10:00-20:00
Calder Contemporary
Kingsland · 0.6 miles
City Road 261A, London EC1V 1AH
Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00
Crafts Council Gallery
Finsbury · 0.6 miles
Pentonville Road 44a, London N1 9BY
We-Fr 11:00-17:00
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📸 Landmarks & sights
Clerk's Well
Aldersgate · 0.1 miles
Historic well, responsible for the name of the area. With interpretation panels.
Lincoln's Inn
Gray's Inn · 0.6 miles
A Portland stone monument set within the historic precincts of Lincoln’s Inn commemorates members of the Inn of Court who lost their lives while on active service in the First World War. Erected in 1921, the structure was designated a Grade II listed building in 1999. The ensemble measures roughly 46 feet (14 m) in length and rests on a three-step stone base; a central pylon is flanked by a curved screen that incorporates seating, terminating in piers at each end. Latin inscriptions on the screen and monument read “HOSPITIUM SOC I S / SANGUINEM PRO PATRIA LARGITIS / FILIIS PARENTES”, while the end piers bear the Roman-numeral dates 1914 and 1919 in the apostrophus form. Brass plaques on the interior faces of the piers list 35 names of the fallen, and a bronze plaque on the pylon records a further 66 names in two columns. A later addition includes a bronze plaque naming 29 individuals from the Second World War, among them Prince George, Duke of Kent. The memorial forms part of a wider network of remembrance within Lincoln’s Inn, which also contains a commemorative table, a book of remembrance, a chapel plaque, and a memorial to the 1915 Zeppelin air raid. The site lies in close proximity to Gray’s Inn, as indicated by OpenStreetMap, and can be viewed at street level within the inn’s public areas. Admission is unrestricted, and no specific visitor facilities are recorded.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
The Original Cell
Bank · 0.6 miles
The library is first fire-proof building in the country. As a result, the cell doors weigh half a ton each and are cast iron in order to attempt any outbreak of fire. Cell was used to store documents and other archives.
Behind Sweeney Todd barber shop
Bank · 0.6 miles
Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, had his shop at number 186 Fleet Street. This alleyway is just several meters from his shop might had been a place where he killed his victims.
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🛝 Playgrounds
Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Distances are as the crow flies from Smithfield.
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