King Edward I stayed at York Place on several occasions while work was carried out at Westminster, and enlarged it to accommodate his entourage. It was about 710 yards (650 m) from Westminster Abbey.Ī sketch of Whitehall Palace in 1544, by Anton van den Wyngaerde. At its most expansive, the palace extended over much of the area bordered by Northumberland Avenue in the north to Downing Street and nearly to Derby Gate in the south and from roughly the elevations of the current buildings facing Horse Guards Road in the west, to the then banks of the River Thames in the east (the construction of Victoria Embankment has since reclaimed more land from the Thames)-a total of about 23 acres (9.3 ha). The palace gives its name, Whitehall, to the street located on the site on which many of the current administrative buildings of the present-day British government are situated, and hence metonymically to the central government itself. White Hall was at one time the largest palace in Europe, with more than 1,500 rooms, overtaking the Vatican, before itself being overtaken by the expanding Palace of Versailles, which was to reach 2,400 rooms. Although the Whitehall palace does not survive, the area where it was located is still called Whitehall and has remained a centre of government. Henry VIII moved the royal residence to White Hall after the old royal apartments at the nearby Palace of Westminster were themselves destroyed by fire. The Palace of Whitehall (or Palace of White Hall) at Westminster, Middlesex, was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, except notably Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire. Inigo Jones's plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at Whitehall, which was only realised in part.
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