Mall, The

Road in London, UK, extending from the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace to Admiralty Arch. The Mall in its present form was designed by Aston Webb 1903-04. It is London's main processional route, being the first stage of the monarch's journey to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, or Horse Guards Parade.

The Mall was first laid out as a fashionable avenue in the 1660s.

Mall, the

Public space in the centre of Washington DC, the site of many famous monuments commemorating key people and events in US history. In the form of a long, wide vista, its eastern end is marked by Capitol Hill, the seat of government, while at its western end stand the Lincoln Memorial and the Potomac River. Other notable features of the Mall are the Washington Monument, the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and the poignant Vietnam Veterans Memorial - a low, black granite wall containing thousands of names of the fallen.

The Mall runs for a total length of 4 km/2.5 mi (including Constitution Gardens, its western extension) and is about 0.6 km/0.4 mi wide. It is connected with the White House (to the north) by the Ellipse, and at its southwestern corner it adjoins the city's tidal basin. Federal Triangle flanks it on the north, and the headquarters of the Smithsonian Institution on the south. From the western end of the Mall, Potomac Park extends down the river to Hains Point, the confluence of the Anacostia River and the Potomac.