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New Scotland Yard
back to sights listingThis is a home of the London Metropolitan Police.
The unusual name comes from place, housing the original headquarters at the Whitehall Palace that was reserved as lodgings for Kings of Scotland. Originally there was Great Scotland Yard, Middle Scotland Yard and Little Scotland Yard, but by the middle of the 19th century new housing meant that only Great Scotland Yard remained.
It was Great Scotland Yard that was first chosen as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in 1829. As Middle and Little Scotland Yards no longer existed, the 'Great' was soon dropped and the police headquarters became known as just Scotland Yard.
Then in 1884 a bomb damaged the headquarters and a new building had to be found. A site on Victoria Embankment was chosen and a new building was built. This was appropriately named the New Scotland Yard.
A severe lack of space meant that in 1967 the police headquarters was again moved, this time to its present location. The name was moved to the new building whilst the former location on Victoria Embankment was renamed as the Norman Shaw Building.
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