District · London
Westminster
Westminster is the western, upper part of London where the Crown's offices and ministries sit, and where kings are crowned. Its High City is reached by Westminster Rise, and the Crown City rises higher still, above the Commons.
Where the volumes speak of it
- Book I › Chapter 5 — The Broken Centuries and the First Reclamations › 5.3 The later recovered age
- Book I › Chapter 7 — Britannia and the Great Isle › 7.2 The Great Isle as held arrangement
- Book I › Chapter 8 — London and the Lower Thames: The Capital Lens › 8.1 London as concentration
Powers seated here
- Admiralty
- Church of Britannia
- The Crown
- Exchequer
- Home Office
- House Harcourt
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Lord Chamberlain
- Lord Treasurer
- Metropolitan Petitions office
- The Ministry
- Ministry of Works and Communications
- Parliament
- The Royal House
- Surveyors' Hall
- Treasury
- War Office
- Westminster Cabinet of Foreign Curiosities
- Westminster office
- Westminster Office for Civic Information
- Westminster provisioning board
In the Chronicle
Within Westminster
Building
Building Hall of Seals The Hall of Seals is one of four celebrated Crown thresholds at the documentary heart of Westminster, the place where seals and patents gather and paper becomes an… Building The Pole and Basin A Westminster barber's, kept by Samuel Twigg, who starts on the ministry clerks at dawn for a penny, or twopence for the hot-towel service. Visitors with business at an… Building Westminster Cabinet The Westminster Cabinet of Foreign Curiosities is curated by George Lucan Vane in a manner part scholarly and part acquisitive, giving greed the look of method. One book… Burial ground
District
District · 1 within Surveyors’ Ward Surveyors' Ward is a quarter of the High City at Westminster, filled with map rooms and survey offices gathered about Surveyors' Hall. It is one of the courts, offices… District Whitehall Whitehall is the part of Westminster where the ministries sit. The frontages of the ministries line Whitehall Terrace, and a visitor with business is told to go in by… Field and heath
House and estate
House and estate Hall of Petitions The Hall of Petitions is one of the four famous thresholds of Westminster's documentary heart, where supplication becomes paper, and petitioners can be seen climbing… House and estate Harcourt Hall Harcourt Hall is the Westminster seat of House Harcourt, the Wax Hands, whose strength lies in chancery work, petitions and the law of lasting paper. House-Steward… Inn and venue
Road and way
Road and way Exchequer Steps The Exchequer Steps are in Westminster, where revenue and weight are audited. Along with the Hall of Petitions, Admiralty Register Close and the Hall of Seals, they make… Road and way Kingsway Rise Kingsway Rise is a road in Westminster, London, climbing a gentle rise. 
Road and way · 1 within Parliament Steps The approach to the Houses in Westminster, one of the courts and streets that give the High City its ordinary geography. At every sitting coachmen wait there and… Street and square
Street and square Admiralty Register Close A close in Westminster where the Crown keeps its paper authority over maritime matters. It forms one of four famous Crown thresholds with the petition hall, the seal… 
Street and square Edmund Square A square where the length of a wait shows how close one has drawn to high authority. Secretaries, upper servants, hired messengers and lesser men of Lord Treasurer… 
Street and square · 1 within Envoys’ Crescent London's best-known embassy street, a curve of carriage doors, guarded hospitality and quiet watching. Mission households and diplomatic staff cluster there, and… Street and square Harcourt Row Harcourt Row lies in Westminster's High City beneath Harcourt Hall, among the cleaner and better-ordered streets beyond Westminster Rise, near Marr Court and Vale… Street and square Saint Stephen’s Close A close beside Parliament Steps in Westminster, part of the ordinary geography of the High City. It contains offices and guarded residences, and is kept swept, hushed… 