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Big Ben is the name of the Great Bell in the clock tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster, and by extension of the tower itself, renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012. Designed by Augustus Pugin and Charles Barry in Perpendicular Gothic style and completed in 1859, the 96-metre tower has four clock dials 6.9 metres across.
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Wellington Arch is a triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner, designed by Decimus Burton and built in 1826–1830 as part of a ceremonial approach to Buckingham Palace. Moved to its present site in 1882–83, it has carried Adrian Jones's bronze quadriga of Peace since 1912; inside are exhibition rooms and balconies looking over the junction.
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