Trafalgar Square is the centre of London, avoided by Londoners if at all possible. It’s the lynch pin of the West End’s tourist triangle between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square. The Strand hurtles in from Covent Garden and the east, but it’s the breadth of Whitehall approac .... Click Here for More Emerge from Charing Cross train or tube station and you’ll find yourself on the Strand. Apart from its width, first impressions reveal little of this vital thoroughfare’s glory days in the 18th and 19th centuries, when it was every fashionable Londoner’s favourite riverside prom. .... Click Here for More Leicester Square always gets bad press, written off as a charmless tourist-trap rife with pickpockets, bagsnatchers and mediocre buskers. The criticisms are still justified – not too many of the businesses round here expect to see the same face twice – but since the little square’ .... Click Here for More Soho has long been the West End at its least respectable and most lively, and now it’s the only part of central London that really comes close to keeping the same hours as New York. Long considered to be shifty and disreputable – it was once the West End’s red-light district – .... Click Here for More Covent Garden has been attracting traders, entertainers, their customers and audiences for at least 300 years but it only became a respectable tourist hotspot about 30 years ago, a fairly successful transformation of one of the oldest meeting places in the West End into one of the youngest. Than .... Click Here for More Mayfair is the West End at its most swanky. Protected from the chaos of Soho to the east by the grand swathe of Regent Street, it still earns its place as the last and most expensive stop on the Monopoly board by boasting the capital’s most luxurious hotels, the hautest couture and cuisine, .... Click Here for More Piccadilly Circus, the heart of the West End, is usually so relentlessly busy that it’s not a particularly pleasant place to linger, but thousands do, gathering around the endearing little monument representing the Angel of Christian Charity but persistently taken to be the God of Love, dub .... Click Here for More ‘Don’t stop, shop!’ could be Oxford Street’s strapline, but then there’s not much worth seeing here anyway. Emerging from Tottenham Court Road tube station at the east end of the street brings you out beneath the unmistakable honeycomb of the Centrepoint tower. Walking w .... Click Here for More The seat of central government power in the Kingdom is an administrative beehive and one of the few parts of London that achieves any architectural cohesion. Parliament Square, especially viewed from the Broad Sanctuary by Westminster Abbey, manages to present a stirring picture of common purpos .... Click Here for More The grandeur of Belgravia’s Eaton Square continues the line of Chelsea’s King’s Road up to the back door of Buckingham Palace, crossed before it gets there by the Belgrave Road striding up through Pimlico from the river to end in some style at Belgrave Square. Both seem to be doin .... Click Here for More Like Mayfair and Belgravia, Knightsbridge is one of the wealthiest areas in London. South Kensington next door, favoured by cosmopolitan jet-setters, wayward little rich girls and anyone dressed up and on the pull, has a noticeable Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and American flavour with some disti .... Click Here for More It’s easy to imagine why Hillary and Bill Clinton called their daughter Chelsea: the name has a pleasant sound and a familiar ring in certain social circles. As far as London is concerned, it means a very comfortable part of town with an impeccable bohemian pedigree, occasionally displaying .... Click Here for More A discreet Georgian and Victorian backwater just to the north of the busiest street in the West End, much to its own surprise Marylebone has recently become almost fashionable. Marylebone Lane twists up from Oxford Street, and broadens out to become Marylebone High Street, now lined with fine di .... Click Here for More Most people hurry through King’s Cross on the Underground without even surfacing but with the arrival of the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras in 2006, this long-neglected and rundown district looks set to get the transformation it deserves. Even the unlovely Euston Road has cleaned up its ac .... Click Here for More Bloomsbury is the academic heart of London, the home of the acronym, full of august institutions better known as SOAS, UCL, RADA and ULU than by their full names, most of them part of the sprawling University of London. North of High Holborn, south of the Euston Road and west of Judd Street, its .... Click Here for More East of the West End and west of the City, Holborn falls between two stools, long colonized by lawyers, the press and intermediaries of all kinds. Twenty years ago though, the journos moved out east to Wapping and Docklands and the buzz of the latest news being churned on Fleet Street has died d .... Click Here for More The City is where London began, and judging from the harried look of its working population, it ain’t over yet. Nowhere is the contrast stronger between weekday and weekend, or even between lunch and supper. During the week thousands storm into the Square Mile to deal with billions of other .... Click Here for More Over the last 10 years or so the south bank of the river between Blackfriars and Tower Bridge has been transformed. The conversion of the old Bankside Power Station into a world class modern art gallery at Tate Modern was the most recent and most spectacular confirmation of the area’s new-f .... Click Here for More Londoners have rediscoverered their river and the South Bank is booming. As architecture critic Ian Nairn noted back in the 1960s, the area is “a real skeleton key. London is bent around the Thames: however much the north bank might wish to forget it, the south holds the centre of gravity.& .... Click Here for More The East End has long been forced to make the best of a bad lot. North and east of the wealth in the City of London, there’s little room here for complacency about cheery cockneys weathering the worst of it with their colourful rhyming slang and robust attitude to a fair deal. That said, th .... Click Here for More Best reached either by boat or on dry land via Brunel’s tunnel under the Thames from Island Gardens on the DLR, Greenwich rewards the journey east with a manageable cluster of top attractions, most especially the National Maritime Museum, but also the Royal Observatory, and the 18th-century .... Click Here for More North of Euston, St Pancras and King’s Cross, Camden is the hub around which north London spins. And a strange mixed-up place it is too, with its music, markets and self-aware media savvy, its dirt, hard drinking and organic juice bars. The Chalk Farm Road carries Camden High Street on nort .... Click Here for More The leafy Bayswater Road sidles west between the northern edge of Hyde Park and one of London’s most contradictory areas. At its tip, Sussex Gardens isolates an exclusive enclave of stately mansions and expensive squares from Paddington station. Further north, beyond the Westway flyover and .... Click Here for More In the long-established rivalry between north and south London, the south often comes off worst. That said, the 1980s club dance craze was passionately embraced from the Elephant and Castle to Brixton and beyond. And much of the spirit of those years lives on in the vibrant pubs, bars and clubs .... Click Here for More One of the best things about the capital is the wealth of worthwhile destinations just a boat trip or train ride away. A small selection of those close to the city are mentioned here, though even medieval York in the north of England can be reached in a couple of hours on the train. To the south .... Click Here for More
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