Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square was a large square in the middle of London . According to the Fourth Doctor , " a good protest always ends up in Trafalgar Square . " ( AUDIO : " Energy of the Daleks " ) It consisted of Nelson ' s Column and three lion statues . There was also a fourth , empty plinth ; in the 21st century , arts were periodically shown off there . ( PROSE : " Magic of the Angels " ) Harry Sullivan , upon experiencing his first voyage in the TARDIS , noted that the ship would be incredibly useful in Trafalgar Square , " hundreds of bobbies hiding inside it . " ( TV : " The Ark in Space " ) 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 lion s , made invisible by perception filter s . These lions began chasing Nyssa and Tegan . In the process , they killed seven civilians and a police man . 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 . 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 . ( PROSE : " The Lions of Trafalgar " ) 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 " ) In the same year , three protesters were killed by the police during the Bloody Sunday demonstration in Trafalgar Square and many more were injured . ( AUDIO : " Children of Steel " ) In 1926 , the Metropolitan Police Service turned the Sevakrill sensor left by the Fifth Doctor 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 intact Trafalgar Square in 1963 after they restored the timeline and defeated the Dalek s . ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " ) On 23 November 1963 , a man was Murder ed in an alley near Trafalgar Square . His murderer was never identified . ( AUDIO : " 1963 " ) 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 " ) 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 " ) On 31 December 1999 , crowds massed at Trafalgar Square to celebrate New Year ' s Eve . ( PROSE : " Millennial Rites " ) Mickey Smith enjoyed a lunch with his girlfriend , Rose Tyler , in Trafalgar Square on 4 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 " ) In 2012 , the Eleventh Doctor put two quantum - locked Weeping Angel s on the fourth plinth , under the title of " " Monument to the Missing " " in memory of the Angel ' s victims , where the two Angels would be in someone ' s line of vision for many years to come . ( PROSE : " Magic of the Angels " ) In 2013 , ( COMIC : " The Fractures " ) a UNIT helicopter brought the Doctor ' s TARDIS to Trafalgar Square . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) In 2014 , ( COMIC : " The Fractures " ) a forest grew overnight to protect Earth from a massive solar flare . During a school trip , the Coal Hill student Maebh Arden got lost in the brand new woods and was to be found in Trafalgar Square by her teachers and the Twelfth Doctor . ( TV : " In the Forest of the Night " ) In 2015 , after the Talent Scout stole the Eleventh Doctor ' s TARDIS , John Jones chased the TARDIS through Trafalgar Square while riding the Entity . ( COMIC : " The Comfort of the Good " ) On 30 January 2025 , the Fourth Doctor and Leela attended an 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 " ) While he was busy repairing a circle of transmat refractors on Earth , the Fourth Doctor pointed out to Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan that Trafalgar Square " should be that way " , if the desolate part of Earth they had transmatted to was Piccadilly ten thousand years into Sarah and Harry ' s future . He told Sarah to " mind the traffic . " ( TV : " The Sontaran Experiment " ) Eye of Time timeline . The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond arrived in the Square in 1963 to learn that the Dalek s 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 " )