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LONDON HIGH STREETS.

 

NEW BOND STREET
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s mainly designer clothes shops and Fenwick's department store. You will also find some very expensive art galleries and Sotheby's down here.
 
NEARBY:  Oxford St -Regent St
Bond Street   

OLD BOND STREET.
This part of the street is door to door with jewellery shops, which include Aspreys (the Crown Jewellers) and Tiffany's.

NEARBY: Oxford St -Regent St
Bond Street   

CHARING CROSS ROAD.
Home of the book lover!  This street is full of many small bookshops.
Silver Moon who deal only with women's books-Zwemmer is for art.
Marchpane stock antique and rare books
Foyle's and Waterstones the major book stores are also down here. 
Some of the shops can look pretty tacky, but it depends what you are looking for.

 
NEARBY: Oxford St -Tottenham Court Rd
Leicester Square

DENMARK STREET.

Denmark Street is quite a short street containing six or so shops specialising in musical instruments and equipment. An excellent selection of guitars can be found down here.

NEARBY: Oxford St
Tottenham Court Rd

HATTON GARDEN.

Hatton Garden is the centre of the diamond trade.
Hatton Garden has a lot of history behind it, but today it is known for the large number of jewellery shops. It is the centre for the diamond trade in London. The shops in Hatton Garden are one of the few places where you can haggle over the price and come away with a good piece of Jewellery.

NEARBY: Smithfields - Bartholomew's
Chancery Lane

JERMYN STREET
 

Jermyn street offers a fine selection of shops selling bespoke shirts and ties. The shaving tackle shop has a very good window display. The cheese shop, although a bit out of place, is one of the best in London.

NEARBY: Piccadilly-St James St - Saville Row
Green park - Piccadilly

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KENSINGTON HIGH STREET

This is a typical London shopping high street, with a large number of shops. In close proximity to Portobello Road, Kensington Church Street and the numerous nearby hotels. Although not worth crossing London for, it’s handy if you are nearby.
NEARBY:  Kensington Palace - Kensington Church Street
Kensington High Street

KENSINGTON CHURCH STREET  

Kensington Church Street contains a large number of antique shops, along with a few 18th century houses.
It is in close proximity to Portobello Road, which makes it an ideal place to visit on a Saturday when the market is on. If you are hungry after all that, try the Kensington Place restaurant.

NEARBY: Kensington Palace - Kensington High Street
Notting Hill Gate

KINGS ROAD

The King’s Road got it’s name after Charles II as it was his private road to Hampton Court. The Road ceased to be private in 1830.
Today the street is full of small but expensive one off boutiques , It is a lovely shopping street and you can always find that extra special gift down there.

NEARBY: Royal Hospital - Chelsea Football Club
Sloane Square

KNIGHTSBRIDGE

This street runs from Hyde Park Corner to Kensington Road. Along with boutiques, you have Harvey Nichols department store and Harrods. Knightsbridge barracks is also on this street and if you look up the stables are two floors up.
Royal Thames Yacht Club - French Embassy - Wellington Club.

NEARBY: Harrods - Hyde Park - Apsley House
Knightsbridge

OXFORD STREET.

This is one the main shopping streets within London, with many large department stores. Although today there are many smaller shops .
DEPARTMENT STORES:- Mark & Spencer's. - D H Evans - Selfridges - Debenhams - Virgin Mega Store - HMV Record Store - Nikes -John Lewis -  British Home Stores.

NEARBY: Regent Street - Tottenham Court Rd
Oxford Circus

REGENT STREET

This street runs from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Street and has many of the one off department stores and shops , along with some high street shops.
STORES:-Liberty - Dickens & Jones - Hamley’s - Warner Brothers - Disney Store - Gap - Next - Tower Records

NEARBY: Oxford Street - Piccadilly Circus
 Oxford Circus

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 SAVILE  ROW .

If it’s a suit you are need then Saville Row is where you must go. The bespoke tailors that occupy this street are world famous with Kings, Presidents, film stars etc, etc, amongst there customers.
Gieves and Hawkes is the most prominent shop.
NEARBY:  Piccadilly - Jermyn Street - Museum of Man Kind
Piccadilly Circus

 St. JAMES STREET

St James street has a wonderful collection of shops, all of them unique.
Berry Brothers and Rudd (wine merchants)
Locks (hatters) have been here since 18th century.
J. Lobb (bootmakers and shoes) since 1850.
William Evans (gun makers). D.R. Harms (chemist) Robert Lewis (cigars)
A fine street to buy quality merchandise.

NEARBY: Piccadilly - St James Palace 
Green Park

TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

The shops down here mainly sell computers, stereos, CD players, TV’S. and many other electrical goods. Most of the shops are selling off old stocks of computers and some of the shops look run down, but there are a few shops that do sell good quality equipment. Towards the other end of the street is the furniture store Habitat and Heals.

NEARBY: Oxford Street - Charing Cross Road
Tottenham Court Rd

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