Place:Westminster, Middlesex, England

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Westminster is also the name of a former metropolitan borough of London. See the Wikipedia article.

Westminster is also the name of a modern borough of London. See the Wikipedia article.

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Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross. It has a large concentration of London's historic and prestigious landmarks and visitor attractions, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Cathedral.

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England (and later the British government) for almost a thousand years. Westminster is the location of the Palace of Westminster, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which houses the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Administratively, Westminster was a borough and city as well as a liberty. The borough and city covered just the parishes and extra parochial places of St Margaret, St John the Evangelist and Westminster Abbey, whilst the liberty included (as well as the three places in the borough) the parishes and extra parochial places of the Liberty of the Rolls, Precinct of the Savoy, St Anne Soho, St Clement Danes, St George Hanover Square, St Martin in the Fields, St Mary le Strand, St Paul Covent Garden and St James Piccadilly. Westminster was transferred from Middlesex to the newly-created County of London in 1889 and became the Westminster Metropolitan Borough in 1900. Westminster Metropolitan Borough was abolished in 1965, becoming part of the London Borough of the City of Westminster, which also covered the former boroughs and parishes of Marylebone and Paddington.