Buckingham Gate

Buckingham Gate is a street in Westminster London, England near Buckingham Palace.

Location

At the north-west end is a junction with Buckingham Palace Road and Birdcage Walk opposite Buckingham Palace. At the south-east end is a junction with Victoria Street. The Wellington Barracks are to the north-east. The street is designated as part of the B323 road.

Transport

The nearest London Underground stations are London Victoria station and St. James's Park tube station, both are close to the south-east end of the street.

Embassies

There are a number of diplomatic missions on the road:

Businesses

There are several restaurants in Buckingham Gate. Currently, there is Bistro 51 at the Crowne Plaza London St. James, the Quilon Indian restaurant at No. 41 and Bongusto Italian restaurant at No. 75. The Zander cocktail bar is at No. 45.

The Taj Suites and Residences, a 5* hotel at No. 51, is located here. At No. 59 is Swire House, accommodating the Britain–Australia Society and the Hong Kong Association and Society. Rolls-Royce Group PLC headquarters is at No. 62.

Buckingham

Coordinates: 51°59′44″N 0°59′12″W / 51.9956°N 0.9868°W / 51.9956; -0.9868

Buckingham is a town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. The town has a population of 12,043 (United Kingdom Census 2011). Buckingham is also a civil parish designated as a town council.

Buckingham was declared the county town of Buckinghamshire in the 10th century when it was made the capital of the newly formed shire of Buckingham until Aylesbury took over this role early in the 18th century.

Buckingham has a variety of restaurants and pubs, typical of a small market town. It has a number of local shops, both national and independent. Market days are Tuesday and Saturday which take over Market Hill and the High Street cattle pens. Buckingham is twinned with Mouvaux, France.

History

Buckingham and the surrounding area has been settled for some time with evidence of Roman settlement found in several sites close the River Great Ouse, including a temple south of the A421 at Bourton Grounds which was excavated in the 1960s and dated to the 3rd century AD. A possible Roman building was identified at Castle Fields in the 19th century. Pottery, kiln furniture and areas of burning found at Buckingham industrial estate suggest the site of some early Roman pottery kilns here.

Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 52°00′00″N 0°59′17″W / 52.000°N 0.988°W / 52.000; -0.988

Buckingham /ˈbʌkɪŋm̩/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by John Bercow, who later became Speaker of the House of Commons.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Sessional Divisions of Ashendon, Buckingham, Newport, and Stony Stratford, and part of the Sessional Division of Winslow.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Urban Districts of Bletchley, Linslade, and Newport Pagnell, the Rural Districts of Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Stratford and Wolverton, Wing, and Winslow, in the Rural District of Aylesbury the civil parishes of Ashenden, Chearsley, Grendon Underwood, Kingswood, Ludgershall, Woodham, and Wotton Underwood, and the part of the Rural District of Long Grendon which was not included in the Aylesbury constituency.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Urban Districts of Bletchley, Linslade, Newport Pagnell, and Wolverton, and the Rural Districts of Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Wing, and Winslow.

Buckingham (unit)

The Buckingham (symbol: B) is a CGS unit of electric quadrupole, named in honour of the chemical physicist A. David Buckingham who was the first to measure a molecular quadrupole moment. It is defined as 1×10⁻²⁶statcoulomb-centimetre². This is equivalent to 1 Debye-Ångström, where 1 Debye = 1×10⁻¹⁸statcoulomb-centimetre is the cgs unit of molecular dipole moment and 1 Ångström = 1×10⁻⁸ cm.

One Buckingham corresponds to the quadrupole moment resulting from two opposing dipole moments but an equal magnitude of 1 Debye which are separated by a distance of 1 Angstrom, a typical bond length. This is analogous to the Debye unit for the dipole moment of two opposing charges of 1×10⁻¹⁰ statcoulomb separated by 1 Angstrom, and the name Buckingham for the unit was in fact suggested by Peter Debye in 1963 in honour of Buckingham.

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