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Interesting statistics, but a pity that some attractions are omitted. You mentioned some. Odd that Twickenham stadium is listed but no Wembley or Lords.

Maybe some theatrical shows should be listed as visitor attractions. I think it is tourists who have kept "The Mousetrap" running for 60 years, likewise long running musicals e.g. "Phantom of the Opera" are now visitor attractions.

In the area just outside of London Thorpe Park or Chessington are not listed.

Of course BBC TV centre will not be in next years listing, interesting that they had an increased visitors for their final year.
VisitEngland's reports are typed by someone who abides by the 'two spaces after a full stop' rule. I found this distracting.
I can personally account for about 30+ of the entries at the National Maritime Museum in 2012. I was part of the Royal Naval Reseve security detail for Greenwich Park and the NMM's coffee shop and facilities were my preferred location for downtime: I popped in there two or three times a day.
actually a response rate of 29% is quite good for a survey sent out in this way, with presumably no penalties for organisations that don't reply. except, of course, the lack of publicity in this list.
@John

Chessington is (just) in Greater London. Whether it didn't appear in the survey, or DG also forgot that it is in London, I wouldn't know.

dg writes: It's not in the survey.

As for Kempton's Great Engines being out of the way, you could say the same about the Crossness Engines, or Barnet Museum, or (from where I'm sitting) the Olympic Park.
DG does have followers even in darkest Middlesex you know!

dg writes: I'd say the same about Crossness Engines. Not especially easy to get to even if you do live in the right corner of town.
Fusiliers Museum above London Zoo? London Zoo under 1 million. Really?
Fusiliers Museum above London Zoo?

Really.

The Fusiliers Museum is inside the Tower of London, hence the large visitor numbers. Even so, whoever fills in their questionnaire has upped the figures from sixty thousand in 2009 to one million in 2012. Bit suspicious.

London Zoo under 1 million?

Really.

Only just under - the figure for 2012 is 974433. But London Zoo's been hovering around the million visitor mark since 2008.
Part of the problem with the Wandle Industrial Museum may be the direction ...

"At the lights turn right into London Road. The museum is 200 years on your left."
I've lived in London for well over a decade, but after the first two groups (mostly visited as a tourist) I've seen almost none of the others. I did walk trough the Maritime Museum on the way to somewhere else once. BTW - that's three spaces after the full stop - hope that's more calming :-)
99% of Greenwich Royal Observatory is still free - they just try to make tourists pay through the nose to have their photos taken on the meridian line in front of the observatory rather than for free at the weights and measures just outside the gate. Or indeed in many places in England, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana, or Queen Maud Land. Although you'll need a coat if you're going to stand on the meridian line in Queen Maud Land since it is about -20 C at the moment.










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