If you want to stay within five minutes walk from the beautiful Hyde Park, then Lancaster Gate is for you. The street actually used to be called Upper Hyde Park Gardens.

Aside from Hyde Park, the attractions of nearby Kensington are not far away. Lancaster Gate itself mainly comprises hotels, embassies and residential properties.

The name Lancaster Gate has most often appeared in the media in reference to the former headquarters of the Football Association, which operated there until 2009.

Lancaster Gate tube station is one of only twenty in the whole 270-strong network not to feature an escalator.