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Encyclopedia > St Giles' Circus

St Giles' Circus is the region of London's West End located at the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road. The word Circus is a little misleading in this context as the roads intersect at a crossroads and not a traffic circle. The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... West End is the name of some places in the world, including: The West End of London, England West End Theatre, is where many of Londons major theatres are located and premier cinema screenings take place. ... Oxford Street is a major London shopping street, running from Marble Arch at the north east corner of Hyde Park, through Oxford Circus to St Giles Circus, its intersection with Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road, where it becomes New Oxford Street until it runs into High Holborn. ... New Oxford Street is a shopping street in Londons West End, an eastward continuation of Oxford Street proper from St Giles Circus to Holborn. ... Charing Cross Road is a London street which runs north from Trafalgar Square to St Giles Circus and then becomes Tottenham Court Road. ... Tottenham Court Road is a road in Central London running from St Giles Circus (the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road) north to Euston Road, near the border of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden. ...


The area is dominated by Centre Point Tower, located on the south east corner on New Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road. The Dominion Theatre is close to the north east corner, on Tottenham Court Road just above New Oxford Street. Tottenham Court Road tube station is located beneath the intersection. See also Sydney Tower, for Centrepoint in Australia Centre Point Centre Point (sometimes rendered as Centrepoint) is a substantial concrete and glass office building in central London, occupying 101-103 New Oxford Street, WC 1, close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station. ... The Dominion Theatre The Dominion Theatre is a theatre in London located on Tottenham Court Road close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point Tower. ... One of several entrances to Tottenham Court Road tube station Tottenham Court Road is a station on the London Underground, serving as an interchange between the Central Line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line. ...


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St Giles' Circus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (497 words)
St Giles' Circus the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road in the West End of London.
The area was historically known as St Giles.
The Church of St Giles in the field next to the Inn was founded in 1116 by Matilda of Boulogne as a leper church and hospital whose estate ran south as far as todays Shaftesbury Avenue.
New Oxford Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (131 words)
New Oxford Street [0.2 mile (0.3km) in length] is a shopping street in London's West End, an eastward continuation of Oxford Street proper from St Giles' Circus to Bloomsbury Way, Holborn.
New Oxford Street suffers from bus congestion in the evenings, often the entire length of the road is one big bus traffic jam.
There is a plan to solve the bus traffic problems by using a contraflow on Bloomsbury Way.
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