Over the past few weeks we've been collecting all the votes for your favourite spots in London and apparently the location with the biggest place in your hearts is… Southbank.
By far the most popular response was a walk along various stretches of the river on London's Southbank. Then, taking in a range of sights and sounds from the London Eye to the Southbank Centre to Shakespeare's Globe to the Tate Modern and Tower Bridge amongst the hundreds of suggestions.
Other popular suggestions included:
- Covent Garden
- Hyde Park
- Natural History Museum
- Borough Market
- Battersea Park
We offered a £1000 prize to go to someone, picked at random, who posted their favourite spot on our facebook page. We're delighted to announce that the winner of the £1000 goes to: Gemma McCombe. Here's Gemma's favourite spot: "South Bank is one of my favourite places, so nice walking next to the river and going into the Tate or national gallery and finishing off in one of the restaurants and walking over the bridge to go back home."
So, even though London is famed for its hustle and bustle it was a relaxing walk along the river taking in the many sights and sounds that won through in the end.
We've hand-picked some of our favourite suggestions from all your responses and listed them below.
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Katie Friar
My favourite place is Camden Market. There are nice shops that you can a have a good old nosey in and food that will tickle your taste buds.
Claire Toplis
I love the vibrancy and colour of Convent Garden that's my favourite spot in London. Where else could you meet a pirate!
Sheila Shepheard
I love Postmans Park. It's a beautiful park with a canopied wall which has tiles on it telling the stories of people who have died whilst saving others. There's heartbreak and joy all in one small site. Go and see!
Stan Homes
I like legging it round hyde park as part of my weekly exercise regime
Barbara Bennett
My favourite place in London is walking over Westminster Bridge looking across to The Houses of Parliament.
Luci Frost
My favourite place in London is Battersea Park on a nice day feeding the ducks!
Christine Temlett
Piccadilly Circus I love the bright lights.
Dee Sherwood Wallace
Mayfair is my favourite part, love to window shop there.
Tracey-ann Edwards
My favourite spot in London is Borough Market on a Sunday wandering around the Farmers market its like a ginormous Delicatessen ! ... then finishing off over the road at Vinopolis ! x
Alecia Steele
I love The Kyoto japanese garden in leafy holland park it shows the peace and tranquility London secretly harbours X
Theresa Rees
Columbia Road flower market is my favourite place to visit - the flowers are so beautiful, the scents are gorgeous and the traders a lovely bunch - and all the little shops along Columbia road are full of variety. A colourful and enlivening part of of London!
Inka Roszkowska
I love the Chelsea Physic Garden. Nice spot when the weather is nice.
Krissy Del Agua
My fav place in London is Chinatown :0)
Jenny Anne
I love the royal horse guards building. I could just look at it all day - especially when the sun is setting. Beautiful.
Lee Tracey Brotherton
Very difficult to choose my top London hotspots... Very torn. It really depends if I am visiting with friends or family. If visiting with friends then of course I have to say Covent Garden, Harrods & Harvey Nichols ~ Followed by a night out in Soho :-) If I am visiting with family then it is most definately The natural History Museam or Tate Modern.
Diana Barnes
My Favourite place in London is the Japanese Garden in Holland Park. The whole park is beautiful. Wooded and wild. Serene and seemingly remote from the busy roads and crowds of the surrounding city. The Japanese Garden is a work of art, a place to sit and contemplate. If you have any small crumbs left over from your picnic lunch then you will find tame Blue tits and other small birds happy to feed close to you and even from your hand. A true oasis of calm in a fast and noisy world.
Helen Thorpe
A walk from London Bridge - take in Borough Market and buy a picnic, visit the Golden Hinde (go with kids on a pirate day - it's brilliant), walk along the Thames, picnic outside the Tate, then go in if you want free culture! A really good day out for all the family.
Julie Houghton
Sir John Soanes' House is always good for a visit, followed by a walk round the Inns of Court - so English and particularly beautiful on a sunny (week)day.
Samantha McHarg-Sharp
Deptford Market - cultural diversity at its best...
Marie Yeardley
The south bank, my son and I love to walk from London Bridge we often stop and visit one of the great places along the route, The Tate Modern is his favourite, I am also partial to a walk in Highgate Cemetery
Ermel Busch
The Tropical Garden in Battersea Park - on a sunny day it always feels like you're on holiday :)
Janie McColl
You can't beat a visit to the Tate Modern, and I love to go on a hunt for Banksy artwork all over the city .
Mary Neville
I really love the London Eye ... fantastic Views
Anne Eames
I love Tower Bridge. How amazing when it opened for the Thames Jubilee Pageant!
Kieran Walsh
ST KATHERINES DOCK a lovely walk from the Tower, along the Thames, lovely cafe by the river
Christopher Waller
I like Southwark, it has lots of interesting but under-appreciated buildings.
Corinne Yeo
My favourite spot in London is Waterlow Park in Highgate. There is a lovely little playground for toddlers and lots of ducks!
Lisa Waugh
I love London but especially love the atmosphere at Wembley.
Caron De Kock
Victoria station.....mad I know...!
Janet Guest
My favourite spot in London in London is East Dulwich - lovely shops, brilliant North Cross Road market, the Cheese Block (cheese heaven) and Hope and Greenwood - a little sweetshop that looks like it's out of a fairy tale. A short walk away is beautiful Dulwich Park where you can feed the ducks or hire unusual bikes. Five minutes up the road is the award-winning Horniman Museum great for big and little kids. This part of South London may not have the tube but that aside I think it rivals the better known parts of London.
Kayleigh Comp Mayhew
My favourite spot in London is inside Harrods!
Jane Wathan
Our favourite spot in London is Regents Canal - a wonderful oasis of calm amid the frenzy of our capital city.
Sonya Fran Cisco
I love the Tate modern, always something new to see and explore, and amazing arts trollies and interactive things for kids too! Inspirational!
Lynda Mibsxx Johnson
My favourite place in London has to be the Globe Theatre
Sophie Kean
My favourite place in London would have to be Kensington Gardens. It's a beautiful spot in the summer - perfect for picnics, or cooling off by the fountain. It's also wonderful stumbling across the slightly hidden Peter Pan statue, especially as there are only 7 in the world!
Hannah Mills
My favourite place in London is Hyde park.. Its the place my husband proposed, the place we came back to for our honeymoon and the place we intend to return to for our 1st year anniversary! Who knows what it holds for us next! X
Mary Wilson
My favourite spot in London has got to be inside Hamleys Store in the run up to Christmas time - awesome x
Poppy Bishop
I love to walk over the Millennium Bridge to St Pauls and then stroll down Fleet St, Strand, etc to Trafalgar Square. So much to see – atmospheric
Melanie Bradley
any bar!!
A big thank you to everyone who participated!
