The area is on the main A4 trunk road heading west from central London towards the M4 motorway. A busy commuter route, the A4 passes over the area's main road junction on a long viaduct, the Hammersmith Flyover.
Hammersmith has many shops and a number of attractions;
The Carling "Hammersmith Apollo" concert hall / theatre (formerly the Hammersmith Odeon)
The Lyric theatre
The "world famous" Hammersmith Palais nightclub.
"The Dove" riverside pub, the oldest surviving riverside pub in London
The Riverside studios art cinema and performance space, formerly BBC studios.
Hammersmith is served by three London Underground lines, the Piccadilly line, District Line and the Hammersmith & City Line. Hammersmith tube station is below a large modern bus station, which is open 24 hours a day and served by a large number of buses, night buses, airport transfer buses and some long distance coaches.
Hammersmith has provided a location for several TV programmes, including the BBC comedy series "Bottom", Channel 4's TFI Friday, and the vampire drama Ultra Violet.
External links
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/index3.htm)
Hammersmith Salvation Army (http://www.hammersmithsalvationarmy.org.uk/)
Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, approximately 5 miles (8km) west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames.
The extension of the Metropolitan Railway to Hammersmith from Paddington in 1864, followed by the District Line in 1874, began a period of considerable expansion and the second half of the 19th century saw a huge increase in population from 10,000 in 1801 to 250,000 in 1901.
Hammersmith Broadway, itself, stretches from the junction of Queen Caroline Street and King Street in the west to the juncion of Hammersmith Road and Butterwick in the east.
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