The Shrine of British History
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 07/06/2005
Westminster Abbey just REEKS of history. If you are a history buff, then you know you cannot miss the Abbey. And at £6 for adults, it is one of the biggest bargains in London besides the free British Museum. I can't remember if it cost extra (it probably did), but we went on a guided tour of the Abbey. Our guide was excellent (as were about all the guides we had in our England trip), and made the tour very enjoyable. You will see the tombs of many a king and queen of England, and many of their relatives. The throne on which many of the monarchs have sat for their coronations is also here, though there are some graffiti from some 18th-century miscreants on it. There is also Poets' Corner, which has many of the people who made high school English a horror, with Shakespeare a notable exception (he's buried in Stratford), though there is a monument to him. The British Tomb of the Unknowns is here as well. Westminster Abbey should definitely be on your shortest of short lists of things to do in London.