Imperial College Road is a tree-lined road in

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. It runs east–west with

Queen's Gate Queen's Gate is a street in South Kensington, London, England. It runs south from Kensington Gardens' Queen's Gate (the edge of which gardens are here followed by Kensington Road) to Old Brompton Road, intersecting Cromwell Road. The street is ...

to the west and

Exhibition Road Exhibition Road is a street in South Kensington, London which is home to several major museums and academic establishments, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. Overview The road gets i ...

to the east. The road forms part of the boundary between

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to the south and the

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to the north. It lies at the heart of the area known as

Albertopolis Albertopolis is the nickname given to the area centred on Exhibition Road in London, named after Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. It contains many educational and cultural sites. It is in South Kensington, split between the Royal Bor ...

, with a number of museums, cultural buildings and educational institutions in the area, a legacy of the

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of 1851 held in

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to the north and promoted by Prince Albert, husband of

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. Formerly known as Imperial Institute Road, the road now takes its name from

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, on whose campus it is located. The

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(surrounded by the

Queen's Lawn The Queen's Lawn is a green lawned area situated at the centre of Imperial College London's South Kensington campus, next to the Queen's Tower and immediately to the north of Imperial College Road. It provides an open space of 1,600 sq metres, ...

adjacent to Imperial College Road) dominates the view to the north halfway along the road, along with the college's Central Library. To the south are the Department of Chemistry of Imperial College, the

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, and the

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. Beyond these buildings is the

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. File:Imperial College, Royal Albert Hall and Natural History Museum from the air - geograph.org.uk - 123686.jpg, Aerial view from the south. Imperial College Road runs left–right in front of the Queen's Tower in the centre of the view File:Royal-College-of-Science,-Imperial-College-Road.jpg,

Royal College of Science The Royal College of Science was a higher education institution located in South Kensington; it was a constituent college of Imperial College London from 1907 until it was wholly absorbed by Imperial in 2002. Still to this day, graduates from th ...

on Imperial Institute Road File:Falmouth Gate towards Queen's Gate, Imperial College Road.jpg, Falmouth Gate looking towards Queen's Gate File:Queen's Lawn and Imperial College Road looking west.jpg, The road runs along

File:Imperial College Road from the corner of Unwin Road looking west.jpg, From the corner with Unwin Road looking west File:Imperial College Road from Queen's Gate.jpg, West end at Queen's Gate looking east

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Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Streets in the City of Westminster Odonyms referring to a building Imperial College London South Kensington {{London-road-stub

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