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| | '''Westminster''' was an area of central [[London]] containing the [[Houses of Parliament]]. |
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| |location = Central [[London]], [[England]], [[Great Britain]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Earth]]
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| {{TitleSort}}<!--Keep this in place, even if the article doesn't need it. This template will automatically truncate "a", "an" and "the" when sorting this page into categories.-->'''Westminster''' was a city in central [[London]] containing Parliament's [[Houses of Parliament|Palace of Westminster]] & [[Big Ben]], [[Parliament Square]], [[Whitehall]], the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]'s residence at [[10 Downing Street]], [[Trafalgar Square]] & [[Nelson's Column]], [[Buckingham Palace]], [[Royal Albert Hall]], the [[Savoy Hotel]], Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, [[Madame Tussauds]] wax museum, the offices of [[The Strand (magazine)|''The Strand'' magazine]], and other landmarks.
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| In the [[13th century]], a [[Rutan Host|Rutan]] ship containing two doomsday weapons that could annihilate the [[Sontaran]]s collided with [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], causing it crash into the future site of Parliament. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot (video game)|The Gunpowder Plot]]'') | | In the [[13th century]], a [[Rutan Host|Rutan]] ship containing two doomsday weapons that could annihilate the [[Sontaran]]s collided with [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], causing it crash into the future site of the Houses of Parliament. |
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| In [[1605]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] moved the [[Houses of Parliament|Palace of Westminster]] safely into orbit, allowing the Rutan [[Elizabeth Winters|Lady Elizabeth Winters']] ship to take off. The Doctor rendered Lady Winters' weapons useless, and returned Parliament to its rightful place. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot (video game)|The Gunpowder Plot]]'') | | In [[1605]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] moved Parliament safely into orbit, allowing the Rutan [[Elizabeth Winters|Lady Elizabeth Winters']] ship to take off. The Doctor rendered Lady Winters' weapons useless, and returned Parliament to its rightful place. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot]]'') |
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| [[Clara Oswald]] was allegedly born behind the face of Big Ben on [[23 November]] [[1866]]. She claimed that it accounted for her impeccable sense of time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')
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| [[Rory Williams]] and [[Amy Pond]] were delivered to the Westminster's [[Savoy Hotel]] by their son-in-law, the [[Eleventh Doctor]], on [[26 June]] [[1890]], their -116th wedding anniversary. They discovered that the new hotel was constructed over a [[Zygon spaceship]] and half of the staff were impostors. The trio thwarted the [[Zygon]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three]]'')
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| Six months later, ''[[The Strand (magazine)|The Strand]]'' entered publication in Westminster. From the start, the magazine featured [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s serialised stories of [[Sherlock Holmes]], which many suspected were Doyle's appropriation of the rumoured exploits of the mysterious [[Vastra|Madame Vastra]] and her colleagues. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatcher]]'')
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| [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] went sightseeing through Westminster upon their return to London in [[1965]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')
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| [[Auto Plastics]] delivered plastic replicas of senior British civil servants and military officers to [[Madame Tussauds]] in [[1970]]. The figures were actually autons which came to life, walking out of the wax museum and taking the place of their subjects in order to facilitate the [[Nestene Consciousness]]' attempted takeover of Earth. Also delivered was [[Scobie|Major General Scobie]] in suspended animation, [[Scobie (Auton)|his replica]] having already unseated him. The [[Third Doctor]] and [[Liz Shaw]] visited Madame Tussauds in the course of their investigation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')
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| The nucleus of the March [[2006]] [[Slitheen]] invasion was in Westminster, with their ship destroying [[Big Ben]] and Slitheen impostors taking over the government at [[10 Downing Street]]. [[Harriet Jones]] called in an airstrike on her own position with the help of [[Mickey Smith]], obliterating Downing Street. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]''/''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'')
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| On Christmas [[2007]], the inter-stellar cruise ship, ''[[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic]]'' plummeted toward Westminster, but the [[Tenth Doctor]] and his aides pulled the ship out of her dive at the last instant. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]''). In [[Donna's World|an alternate timeline]] in which the Doctor was already dead, Westminster was the epicenter of a thermonuclear explosion when the ship indeed crashed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')
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| In May [[2008]], [[the Master]] seized control of the government in Westminster when, in his guise as [[Harold Saxon]], he was appointed [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minster]], and immediately murdered his cabinet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'').
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| After a wave of mysterious [[cube]]s arrived on Earth, hundreds of them could be seen outside Westminster. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three]]'') | | After a wave of mysterious [[cube]]s arrived on Earth, hundreds of them could be seen outside Westminster. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three]]'') |
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| [[Barbara Wright]], [[Jenny (The Dalek Invasion of Earth)|Jenny]], and [[Dortmun]] evaded [[Dalek]]s patrols in Westminster ''c.'' [[2167]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
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| [[File:Westminster in or after 13100 - Sontaran Experiment.jpg|thumb|right|Westminster in or after 13100 CE. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')]]Ten or more millennia after the [[30th century]], [[Sontaran]] [[Styre|Field Major Styre]] landed in the desolate landscape that had been Westminster. Using [[Styre's robot|his robot]], he conducted experiments on [[GalSec]] astronauts in order to analyse human physiology. The [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], and [[Harry Sullivan]] serendipitously teleported down to where Piccadilly had run, in order to inspect and repair the [[Transmat]] spheres for [[Space Station Nerva]]. While the Doctor performed the repairs, Sarah Jane and Harry explored the gorge that had once been Trafalgar Square. Harry fell into the crevasse and the Doctor was captured by before he too fell into the gully. Sarah Jane and the astronauts were captured by the robot and taken to Styre. Harry and the Doctor rescued them and killed Styre. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
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| === See also places in Westminster ===
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| *[[Trafalgar Square]]
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| **[[Nelson's Column]]
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| *[[Houses of Parliament|The Palace of Westminster]]
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| **[[Big Ben]]
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| **[[Parliament Square]]
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| *[[10 Downing Street]]
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| *[[Whitehall]]
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| *[[Buckingham Palace]]
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| *[[Royal Albert Hall]]
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| *[[Savoy Hotel]]
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| *[[Madame Tussauds]]
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| *[[The Strand (magazine)|''The Strand'' magazine's offices]]
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| == Behind the scenes == | | == Behind the scenes == |
