   hyde park corner is an area in london located around a major road junction at the southeastern corner of hyde park. six streets converge at the junction: park lane (from the north), piccadilly (northeast), constitution hill (southeast), grosvenor place (south), grosvenor crescent (southwest) and knightsbridge (west). hyde park corner tube station, a london underground station served by the piccadilly line, is located at the junction as well as a number of notable monuments. immediately to the north of the junction is apsley house, the home of the first duke of wellington, and several monuments to the duke were erected in the vicinity in his lifetime and subsequently. == evolution and development ==   in the centre of the hyde park corner traffic island stands the wellington arch (or constitution arch), designed by decimus burton and planned as a northern gate to the grounds of buckingham palace. in execution, it was laid out as a gate into the green park and was originally sited directly opposite burton's ionic screen (also known as the hyde park corner screen) which still provides a gate into hyde park. originally, the arch was topped with an equestrian statue of the duke (by matthew cotes wyatt). because of traffic congestion, the arch was moved south and realigned to the axis of constitution hill in 1883. the boundary of buckingham palace's garden were moved south, and a new road named duke of wellington place was created separating the space containing the arch from the rest of the green park. at this time the large equestrian statue was removed to sandhurst. it was subsequently replaced with the current work, entitled the angel of peace descending on the quadriga of victory, dated 1912, by the sculptor adrian jones. following the passage of the park lane improvement act 1958, park lane was widened in the early 1960s. for most of its length this was achieved by converting the former east carriage drive of hyde park into the northbund lanes of a dual carriageway, but at hyde park corner, all lanes of traffic came together on a line immediately to the east of apsley
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