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Somerset House
Somerset House Strand. this fine building, with a frontage to the Embankment of 780 feet in length, rising on a terrace 50 feet high, adds to the now imposing range of buildings which borders the Thames between Westminster and Blackfriars. Has also a western wing in Wellington Street, with a principal entrance in the Strand. In the centre of the quadrangle is a large bronze statue of George the Third. The central Inland Revenue offices are at Somerset House; also the collection of wills and registers of births, marriages, and deaths, which may he searched on payment of a small free.
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