Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster. Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street, it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: street in London
- Also known as: “Carnaby St.”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Tabraiz Feham, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
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
Photo: MykReeve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. London Palladium is situated 610 feet northwest of Carnaby Street.
Royal Academy of Arts
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Royal Academy of Arts is situated 1,400 feet south of Carnaby Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soho and Chinatown.
Soho
Photo: garryknight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Soho is a district of central London, part of the West End, famous for jazz, its gay village, sex shops and alternative lifestyles.
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.
St James’s
Neighborhood
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St James's is a district of Westminster, and a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End. The area was once part of the northwestern gardens and parks of St.
Carnaby Street
- Categories: street, shopping street, pedestrian zone, and tourism
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51312° or 51° 30′ 47″ northLongitude
-0.13877° or 0° 8′ 20″ westElevation
115 feet (35 metres)Open location code
9C3XGV76+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 5657364621OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
9972425Wikidata ID
Q38778
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Carnaby Street” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Carnaby Street”
- Armenian: “Քարնաբի”
- Basque: “Carnaby Street”
- Catalan: “Carnaby Street”
- Chinese: “卡納比街”
- Chinese: “卡纳比街”
- Czech: “Carnaby Street”
- Danish: “Carnaby Street”
- Dutch: “Carnaby Street”
- Esperanto: “Carnaby Street”
- Finnish: “Carnaby Street”
- French: “Carnaby Street”
- German: “Carnaby Street”
- Indonesian: “Carnaby Street”
- Italian: “Carnaby Street”
- Japanese: “カーナービーストリート”
- Korean: “카나비가”
- Malay: “Carnaby Street”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carnaby Street”
- Norwegian: “Carnaby Street”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Carnaby Street”
- Persian: “خیابان کرنبی”
- Portuguese: “Carnaby Street”
- Russian: “Карнаби-стрит”
- Slovak: “Carnaby Street”
- Spanish: “Carnaby Street”
- Swedish: “Carnaby Street”
- Turkish: “Carnaby Caddesi”
- Urdu: “کارنیبی اسٹریٹ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carnaby Street”. Photo: garryknight, CC BY-SA 2.0.