Westminster

Westminster
Type:	Borough
Location:	Greater London

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Westminster, also known as the City of Westminster, was a borough in central London.

As the location of the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street, the City of Westminster was - by the 21st century - home to both the British government and the British monarchy.

Geography

The location of the borough of Westminster on Mr Smith's map. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)

The borough of Westminster shared its north and north-eastern borders with Camden, the southern part of its eastern border with the City of London, its western border with Kensington and its north-western border with Brent. Its southern border was the River Thames, across which was Wandsworth to the west and Lambeth to the east. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)

Westminster contained distinctive areas of parkland, one of which had a large lake. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen ^[+]Loading...["Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)"])

History

Early history

In the 13th century, a Rutan ship containing two doomsday weapons that could annihilate the Sontarans collided with the TARDIS, causing it crash into the future site of the Houses of Parliament. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)

In 1605, the Eleventh Doctor moved Parliament safely into orbit, allowing the Rutan 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)

21st century

In the early 2000s, a suicide bomber targeted the Westminster tube station in protest against the Prime Minister's decision to take the United Kingdom closer to the European Union. (AUDIO: The Longest Night)

Major Jenny Maguire told Captain A. Frederick on an operations board on the UNIT website that she would go to the acting PM in the acting office in Westminster after she saw the coffins of the dead alien experts, including Muriel Frost and her Geneva EVA team, off an air strip. (PROSE: Number Ten)

In 2005, the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler stepped out of the TARDIS in Westminster having lost the signal to a transmitter being used by the Nestene Consciousness. Rose worked out that the transmitter was the London Eye, located just across the River Thames from where they were standing. (TV: Rose)

In the 2000s, Coldfire Construction put up a new technology block in one of the schools in Westminster. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)

In 2009, Polly Wright worked in the City of Westminster. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

After a wave of Shakri cubes arrived on Earth, hundreds of them could be seen outside Westminster. (TV: The Power of Three)

Later history

Westminster was one of the forefronts of the Dalek's invasion in the 22nd century. A Dalek Saucer attacked London. The British government put all their best defences into battle against them, sending the Air Force's helicopters and fighters to attack the Dalek ship. Tanks fought across the streets, and the Navy fought with gunboats. The humans were persistent, destroying many Daleks, but in a matter of days the Daleks subjugated the humans. (PROSE: Invasion Earth: 2164)

Behind the scenes

• According to The Writer's Tale, originally in The Stolen Earth or Journey's End, Prime Minister Fairchild was to have been exterminated by the Daleks at Westminster.