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Lancaster Gate, London — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lancaster Gate stands on Bayswater Road in Paddington, north of Kensington Gardens, with a Central line station and the Royal Lancaster Hotel.
About Lancaster Gate
Where to stay in Lancaster Gate
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Rooms are the point here. The Royal Lancaster Hotel sits next to the station on Bayswater Road, and the streets behind it run back into Paddington within a few minutes of Kensington Gardens. Central line trains reach Marble Arch in one stop and Queensway in the other direction, which suits anyone who wants the park on one side and the Underground on the other.
Porchester Hall lies further inland. You gain quieter blocks that way, though the walk to the Serpentine Galleries and the Albert Memorial grows longer.
About Lancaster Gate
What are the main landmarks in Lancaster Gate?
Memorials crowd this stretch of Paddington. The Albert Memorial and Speke's Monument head the list, with the Meath Memorial and the Memorial to the Great Exhibition among the rest. Museums fill in around them: the Serpentine Galleries, the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, and the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum.
Churches hold the corners. St James's Church, the Swedish Church and St Mary on Paddington Green Church stand near houses such as Chester House and Spire House, with Porchester Hall a little further into Paddington.
What is the history of Lancaster Gate?
The station took its name from Lancaster Gate itself, the address on Bayswater Road it was built beside. Memorials record what the area kept. The Memorial to the Great Exhibition, the Raoul Wallenberg Monument and Speke's Monument each fix a name in stone, and the Meath Memorial and William Pitt Byrne Memorial Fountain do the same.
Parish churches followed, among them Christ Church, St Mark's Church and the Church of St John the Evangelist. Then the Central line arrived, threading Lancaster Gate between Queensway and Marble Arch.
Where is Lancaster Gate?
Lancaster Gate sits on Bayswater Road in Paddington, north of Kensington Gardens and one Central line stop from Marble Arch.
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Updated September 2026