WALK 4: LEICESTER SQUARE TO GREEN PARK - London: A Tour Guide for Modern Traveller - page 34

WALK 4: LEICESTER SQUARE TO
GREEN PARK

Starting location: Leicester Square tube station.
Length: 2 miles.
Opening hours:
• T HE R OYAL O PERA A RCADE : www.royaloperaarcade.com . Open Monday to
Saturday, 8.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. When closed return to Haymarket and walk
down to Pall Mall.
• S T J AMES ' S P ALACE is closed to the public, except for services in the Chapel Roy-
al on Sundays, 8.30 a.m. and 11.30 a.m., October to Good Friday.
• S T J AMES ' S S QUARE G ARDENS : closed on Sundays.
• S T J AMES ' S C HURCH , P ICCADILLY : www.st-james-picadilly.org . Open daily from 8
a.m. to 6.30 p.m. but may not be accessible during services and concerts.
• S PENCER H OUSE : www.spencerhouse.co.uk . Open most Sundays, but it is advis-
able to check.

A delightful display of caps and bonnets from a fashion plate of 1807.
Walk west from the tube station along Cranbourn Street, as far as the entrance to nar-

row Cranbourn Alley on your left.
In early March 1814 Jane was staying with her brother Henry in nearby Henrietta Street.
The weather was miserable and she was thinking about clothes and how to trim her gowns.
On the 7 March she wrote to Cassandra, 'Here's a day! The Ground covered with snow!
What is to become of us? We were to have walked out early to near Shops, & had the Car-