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Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster.It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly.In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction.
This year, the parade begins at 12pm and runs from Hyde Park Corner, through Piccadilly Circus, down Haymarket and along Pall Mall to Trafalgar Square, culminating at Whitehall Place.
Piccadilly Circus, in the heart of the West End, in September 2012. The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are ...
Piccadilly (/ ˌ p ɪ k ə ˈ d ɪ l i / ⓘ) is a road in the City of Westminster, London, England, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith , Earl's Court , Heathrow Airport and the M4 motorway westward.
Haymarket, 2006. Haymarket is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, London.It runs from Piccadilly Circus in the north to Pall Mall at the southern end. . Located on the street are the Theatre Royal, His Majesty's Theatre, New Zealand House, a cinema complex and restaura
Piccadilly Circus is a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line, also known as the Crossrail 2. [16] It would be between Victoria and Tottenham Court Road stations. Effectively a new station would have to be built under the existing levels, possibly as part of a major overhaul of the existing buildings.
The nearest tube stations are Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square. [1] The western section of the road is part of the A4 one-way system between Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. [1] No buses run along the full length of Coventry Street but there is access to numerous routes from Piccadilly Circus or nearby Charing Cross Road. [2]
From Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus, it is in the City of Westminster, and from Cambridge Circus to New Oxford Street, it is in the London Borough of Camden. Shaftesbury Avenue was built between 1877 and 1886 by the architect George Vulliamy and the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] to provide a north–south traffic artery ...