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Parliament Square

Westminster Abbey is on one side, the Houses of  Parliament  on  the  other.
The buildings of the Houses of Parliament is not old,  it  dates  only  from
the 19th century, and is in the Gothic style.  When  the  Parliament  has  a
sitting a flag flies from the Victoria Tower. It is  the  national  flag  of
the United Kingdom. Another tower, the Clock Tower, is famous for  the  hour
bell and the clock named “Big Ben”. Only a short  way  from  the  Houses  of
Parliament there is one of the most beautiful of  all  English  buildings  –
W.A., founded in the 11th century. There are many tombstones, monuments  and
statues there. For nearly 1000 years all the Kings and Queens of  England  –
41 in all – have been crowned here. If u go past the magnificent  tombstones
of kings and queens, some made of gold and precious stones u  will  come  to
the Poets’ Corner. There many of the greatest writers were buried.  Geoffrey
Chauser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens,  Alfred  Tennyson,  Thomas  Hardy,
Rudyard Kipling. Burns and Byron, Walter Scott and the great  American  poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Here in the Abbey there is  also  the  Grave  of
the Unknown Warrior that commemorate the men who died  on  the  First  World
War.
The square has a lot of statues  including  Richard  the  Pion-Hearted,  and
Oliver Cromvell. It also has the masterpiece of Sir Henry Mur –  the  statue
of Sir Winston Churchill.

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