Randomness Guide to London - Differences between Version 7 and Version 1 of Locale Regent Street
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| <div class="neighbouring_postcodes_grid"> || [[Locale Marylebone|Marylebone]] || [[Locale Marylebone|Marylebone]] || [[Locale Fitzrovia|Fitzrovia]] || || [[Locale Mayfair|Mayfair]] || Regent St || [[Locale Soho|Soho]] || || [[Locale Piccadilly|Piccadilly]] || [[Locale St James's|St James's]] || [[Locale Trafalgar Square|Trafalgar Sq]] || </div> |
Auto-generated list of things in Regent Street (@MAP_LINK [[Locale Regent Street|view them on a map]]): |
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A major shopping thoroughfare sweeping south down from Portland Place in [[Locale Marylebone|Marylebone]], past [[Oxford Circus Station]] and [[Locale Oxford Street|Oxford Street]], and curving around to [[Locale Piccadilly Circus|Piccadilly Circus]]. There's an additional short spur running south from there to join Waterloo Place at Pall Mall. |
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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 [[Locale Soho|Soho]] and [[Locale Mayfair|Mayfair]] was further to the west. It also had the not unintended consequence of clearing a notorious slum area around Swallow Street north of [[Locale Piccadilly|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, Regent Street|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. See also: * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_Street Wikipedia entry] Auto-generated list of things on or near Regent Street (@MAP_LINK [[Locale Regent Street|view them on a map]]): @INDEX_LIST [[Locale Regent Street]] address='' category='Locales,Streets' edit_type='Normal edit' fax='' formatted_website_text='' host='161.74.11.26' hours_text='' locale='Central London' major_change='1' map_link='' opening_hours_text='' phone='' postcode='' summary='Fashionable shopping street running between Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus.' |
category='Locales' summary='Fashionable shopping street running between Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus.' |
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