Locale: Regent Street
A major shopping thoroughfare sweeping south down from Portland Place in Marylebone, past Oxford Circus Station and Oxford Street, and curving around to Piccadilly Circus. There's an additional short spur running south from there to join Waterloo Place at Pall Mall.
The street was built in the 1830s by John Nash, and commissioned by the Prince Regent. It was built on a grand scale and was originally intended to follow the line of Great Portland Street, but it was recognised that the natural border between Soho and Mayfair was further to the west. It also had the not unintended consequence of clearing a notorious slum area around Swallow Street north of Piccadilly.
It is currently filled largely by large fashion retail chains (such as Zara, H&M, United Colours of Bennetton, Ted Baker, et al.). It used to have a number of large department stores, but now only Liberty remains (which itself is sited just off Regent Street, on Great Marlborough Street). It is also the site of the first Apple Store in the UK.
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Auto-generated list of things on or near Regent Street (view them on a map):
- Apollo Cinema
- Buffy's Beads
- Captain's Cabin, SW1Y 4RJ
- Cha Cha Moon, W1F 9BN
- Cock, W1W 8QE
- Diner Soho, W1F 7BU
- Eat, SW1Y 4PH
- Eat, W1B 2HU
- Eat, W1D 1LA
- Eat, W1S 3HJ
- Fresco Lebanese Restaurant, W1G 0JE
- Glassblower, W1B 5JY
- Goodman, W1S 1QH
- Itsu, W1B 2HP
- Japan Centre, W1J 9HX
- Kerala Restaurant, W1W 8LT
- Leon, W1B 2HB
- Liberty, Regent Street
- Lush, Regent Street
- Match Bar, W1G 0JF
- Mitsukoshi, SW1Y 4PH
- Oxford Circus Station
- Ozer, W1B 3DG
- Piccadilly Circus Station
- Red Lion, W1B 5PP
- Restaurant Yoshino, W1J 0DB
- Wagamama, SW1Y 4RJ
- Windmill, W1S 2AZ