Oxford Circus
Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London. It is also the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: intersection of Oxford Street and Regent Street in London
- Also known as: “Regents Circus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leicester Square and London Palladium.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
London Palladium
Theater building
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The London Palladium is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, London, in Soho. The theatre was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1910.
Oxford Circus tube station
Metro station
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Oxford Circus is a London Underground station in Central London. It serves Oxford Circus and is located at the junction of Regent Street and Oxford Street, with entrances on all four corners of the intersection.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soho and Mayfair-Marylebone.
Soho
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Soho is a district of central London, part of the West End, famous for jazz, its gay village, sex shops and alternative lifestyles.
Mayfair-Marylebone
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Mayfair and Marylebone are districts of central London. Together they cover a large area of western central London, encompassing the whole of Mayfair and Piccadilly to the south and the area from Oxford Street through Marylebone to Regent's Park and the border with St John's Wood to the north.
Chinatown
Suburb
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west, Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street.
Oxford Circus
- Categories: road junction and square
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oxford Circus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oxford Circus”
- Basque: “Oxford Circus”
- Chinese: “牛津圆环”
- Chinese: “牛津圓環”
- Danish: “Oxford Circus”
- Dutch: “Oxford Circus”
- French: “Oxford Circus”
- Hebrew: “כיכר אוקספורד”
- Icelandic: “Oxford Circus”
- Italian: “Oxford Circus”
- Japanese: “オックスフォード・サーカス”
- Japanese: “オックスフォードサーカス”
- Korean: “옥스퍼드 서커스”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oxford Circus”
- Norwegian: “Oxford Circus”
- Persian: “میدان آکسفورد”
- Polish: “Oxford Circus”
- Slovak: “Oxford Circus”
- Slovenian: “Oxford Circus”
- Spanish: “Oxford Circus”
- Swedish: “Oxford Circus”
- Vietnamese: “Oxford Circus”
- Yue Chinese: “牛津圓環”
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