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| | GENUKI: Pimlico History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | It is bounded on the E. by St. James's and the Green Parks, and belongs to the Grosvenor family. |
 | | Though of comparatively recent origin, it is one of the finest quarters of the metropolis, and the site of Buckingham Palace, the town residence of her Majesty the Queen; so called, because the palace occupies the site of a house, built in 1703, by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, in the Mulberry Gardens. |
 | | Here are also the Grosvenor basin and canal, communicating with the Thames, the banks of which are lined with wharfs for coal, stone, and timber. |
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