Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square was a large square in the city of Westminster, in the middle of London.

On a visit to London in November 1605, the First Doctor's companion Vicki Pallister, a native of the 25th century, expressed an interest in visiting the square. When the Doctor told her that the Battle of Trafalgar would not occur for another 200 years, she assumed that he meant that a battle had been fought in Trafalgar Square in 1805. (PROSE: The Plotters)

On 23 October 1843, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka visited the square, which Tegan claimed was more "tourist friendly" in 1982. The Doctor climbed Nelson's Column and found its builders Samuel Morton Peto and Thomas Grissell had been taken over by two Sevakrill. In addition, they had installed a missile inside the column which was faced downwards, ready to destroy the Earth in 2017. This would distract the Charnal horde, enemies of the Sevakrill, allowing them to gain a strategic advantage.

To protect this operation, they installed several stone lions, made invisible by perception filters. These lions began chasing Nyssa and Tegan. In the process, they killed seven civilians and a policeman. The Doctor managed to appeal to Peto and Grissell and they broke free.

The lions returned to their plinths and the Doctor hoped that, when their perception filters wore off in a few decades, Sir Edwin Landseer would unveil them as his own creation, as was the case.

In 1887, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson passed quickly through the square and up Charing Cross Road on their way to Baker Street. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)

The Doctor then spent two weeks lowering the missile into a shaft beneath column and building a floor to cover it. By this time it was November, and the statue of Nelson was being added when the Doctor departed. He left behind a short range sensor in the square to warn him if the Sevakrill ever tried to reactivate the missile. In 1926, the Metropolitan Police Service turned it into a police box. (PROSE: The Lions of Trafalgar)

On 8 May 1945, a party was held in Trafalgar Square to celebrate VE Day. (PROSE: Magic of the Angels) The Seventh Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex were present in London for the celebrations. Prior to this visit, Hex had never heard of VE Day. (AUDIO: Casualties of War)

Amy Pond and the Eleventh Doctor were relieved to see Sylvia alive in an in-tact Trafalgar Square in 1963 after they restored the timeline and defeated the Daleks. (GAME: City of the Daleks)

Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright visited the Square while sightseeing upon their return to Earth in 1965. (TV: The Chase)

The TARDIS materialised in Trafalgar Square immediately after midnight, 1 January 1966, during the New Year's Eve celebrations. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)

The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler landed the TARDIS in Trafalgar Square when visiting London on 20 July 1966. (COMIC: The Love Invasion)

In 1976, the Seventh Doctor arrived in the square with Ace and Bernice Summerfield, disguising his TARDIS as Nelson's Column by materialising around the actual monument. The Monk caused the TARDIS to take on the form of the Statue of Liberty. (PROSE: No Future)

Mickey Smith enjoyed a lunch with his girlfriend, Rose Tyler, in Trafalgar Square on 5 March 2005. (TV: Rose)

The Tenth Doctor pulled the interstellar cruise ship Titanic out of a nosedive, narrowly avoiding Buckingham Palace and piloted her along the Mall toward Trafalgar Square, on the morning of 25 December 2008. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)

On 30 January 2025, the Fourth Doctor and Leela attended a energy activist protest, led by Jack Coulson, against the GlobeSphere Corporation in Trafalgar Square. (AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks)

By the late 21st century, a T-Mat cubicle was installed in Trafalgar Square, just north of Nelson's Column. (TV: The Seeds of Death)

During the Dalek occupation of Earth in the 2160s, the Daleks patrolled the square. Barbara Wright and Jenny managed to avoid the Daleks while rolling Dortmun in his wheelchair in their trek across Westminster to Wembley. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

The First Doctor's companion Vicki Pallister, a native of the 25th century, was unfamiliar with Trafalgar Square's history. (PROSE: The Plotters)

Ten or more millennia after the 30th century, the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan explored the desolate gorge that had once been Trafalgar Square. Harry fell into the crevasse and the Doctor was captured by GalSec astronauts before he too fell into the gully. Sarah Jane and Roth were captured by Sontaran robot and taken to Field Major Styre. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment)

Eye of Time Timeline
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond arrived in the Square in 1963 to learn that the Daleks had invaded Earth. The Daleks were chasing the last human through the square. The timeline was restored when the TARDIS crew travelled to Skaro to destroy the Eye of Time. (GAME: City of the Daleks)