Where can I find information that tells what tube stop is for which tourist site? I have a similar list for Washington DC, where they list the tourist stops and the metro stop, which was of great use. I was hoping there was a similar list somewhere for the London sites. Thanks!

Invest in a Streetwise London Map (by Michael Brown, $6.95 from amazon.com). It's a laminated accordian fold map and highlights all the major sites, hotels, shops, and tube stops. Very easy to read and very portable (fits in a purse or backpack).

London Tourist Office-They have/sell a small booklet listing sites and bus and underground routes going near them! Use busses. Conductor will get you off at right stop. Bus stop signing has been improved. But you need to know which direction you want.

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I have found that guidebooks (I do recommend buying one by the way) and maps are not infallible when recommending the nearest tube/metro stop, and some differ in their recommendations. It sometimes turns out that there is more than one choice for "nearest" stop, and there are sometimes mitigating factors like one is across the street but only open certain hours, or one is closed for renovation, or one is on the other side of the bridge, or one has the mile long staircase and the other doesn't.

I think the primary websites for the major sights are the best sources of visitors information, including transport stops.

However, one excellent printed resource for London is the London Mapguide, excellent detail, includes Tube and bus routes.

I meant to add, this website has a journey planner which makes recommendations on routes and stops

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/use...T2?language=en

The tube website...which is I think www.thetube.com gives you the option to input sites and it will tellyou the stop.

Jamie

Every guidebook I've ever used (I tend to favor Frommers and Fodors) gives the nearest tube/metro stop for the sights listed. Though as Elaine mentions, it is worth looking at a map to see if there is an alternate that's more convenient given what line you are on, etc.

Right here on Fodors, in the Destinations section for London, you will find this info. (It is at the end of the description of the sight listed: hours, cost, tube stop.) For example:

http://www.fodors.com/miniguides/mgr...full&pg=11

you might also want to invest in a London A-Z. It is a pocket sized map book that will be a lifesaver. It was for me. It is easy to get confused over there and this handy little map book will get you back on course. All the locals have one.

Thanks to everyone! These are great recommendations and I will definitely check some of the ideas out.

I second the idea of buying at your arrival airport an AtoZ. The version for you is the AZ Visitors London atlas and guide, tiny, spiral-bound, with maps and index, tube map on the back, and (a bonus) short notes on each attraction and when it is open. It costs about five US dollars.

Most attractions lie along the Thames, and thus along the Circle line.
Kensington High Street: Commonwealth Institute, Kensington Palace, Albert Memorial
South Kensington: Victoria and Albert, Natural History Muyseum, Science Musreum
Victoria: Buckingham Palace, with mews and picture gallery
St James PaRK: the lake
Westminster and over the iver to the London Eye and Florence nightingale museum.
Embankment: ten minutes walk to Trafalgar Square, Natioinal Gellery, and National Portrait Gallery. Over the Thames for the South Bank Centre. Ten minutes walk to Convent Garden and the museums for Transport and Theatre
Blackfriars. Ten minutes walk to St Paul?s. Try Carter Lane
Over the river to the Tate Modern and the Globe
Mansion House and Cannon Street: City churches
Monument: the Monument, the Bank of England museum, City churches
Over the river to Southwark Cathedral and St George?s pub
Tower Hill: the Tower, St Dunstan?s by the Tower, the Tower Bridge museum, over the river to the Design Museum

But the central Line is best for Speakers Corner at Marble Arch, Oxford Street, the British Museum at Holborn, Sir John Soane?s museum at Holborn, the Museum of London at St Paul?s, and the Bank

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