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Regent's Park to the north. It was the city's first stab at slum clearance, creating a
tangible borderline to shore up fashionable Mayfair against the chaotic maze of
neighbouring Soho. Today, it's still possible to admire the stately intentions of Nash's
plan, even though the original arcading of the
Quadrant
, which curves westwards from
Piccadilly Circus, is no longer there.
Regent Street enjoyed eighty years as Bond Street's nearest rival, before the rise of the
city's middle classes ushered in heavyweight stores catering for the masses. Two of the
oldest established stores can be found close to one another on the east side of the street:
Hamleys
, which claims to be the world's largest toy shop, and
Liberty
, the department
store that popularized Arts and Crafts designs. Liberty's famous mock-Tudor entrance,
added in the 1920s, is round the corner on Great Marlborough Street - inside there's a
central roof-lit well, surrounded by wooden galleries carved from the timbers of two
old naval battleships.
SHOPS
CAFÉS
& Other Stories
Alexander McQueen
Browns
Dover Street Market
6
12
3
11
Fortnum & Mason
Hamleys
Hatchard's
John Lewis
13
8
14
4
Liberty
Marks & Spencer
Selfridges
Topshop
7
1
2
5
Vivienne Westwood
Waterstones
Wolf and Badger
9
15
10
Claridge's
Fortnum & Mason
MoCafé
The Ritz
Tibits
The Wolseley
3
11
7
9
6
10
PORTMAN
SQUARE
0
200
MANCHESTER
SQUARE
RESTAURANTS
MARYLEBONE
yards
Kiku
Little Social
Rasa W1
Truc Vert
Wild Honey
8
4
2
1
5
Marble Arch
Marks &
Spencer
Marble
Arch
Primark
Selfridges
PUBS & BARS
Audley
The Windmill
Ye Grapes
1
2
3
CAVENDISH
SQUARE
Debenhams
Bond
Street
John
Lewis
Bonhams
US
Embassy
GROSVENOR
SQUARE
OXFORD
CIRCUS
Grosvenor
House
Oxford
Circus
Handel
House
Museum
HANOVER
SQUARE
Claridge's
Hyde
Park
Dunhill
Smythson
Mount
Street
Garden
Church of the
Immaculate
Conception
St George's
Liberty
S T
R E E T
Grosvenor
Chapel
F O U B E RT 'S PL.
BRUTON PLA
CE
Sotheby's
Hamleys
Dorchester
Hotel
MAYFAIR
GANTON
B R
U T O N S T R
E E T
BERKELEY
SQUARE
B R O
SOHO
B E A K S T R
Royal
Institution
L E
Crewe
House
GOLDEN
SQUARE
ROYAL
ARCADE
Brown's
Hotel
Hilton
Hotel
Royal
Academy
SHEPHERD
MARKET
De Beers
Trocadero
Albany
PICCADILLY
CIRCUS
Fortnum &
Mason
Ripley's
PRINCE'S
ARCADE
Green
Park
Eros
PICCADILLY
ARCADE
The Ritz
Waterstones
Piccadilly
Circus
Green Park
MAYFAIR
St James's
ST JAMES'S
