Areas of London
Featured articles
> MaryleboneMarylebone is home to Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, and Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street.
> Little VeniceLittle Venice is a pretty stretch of canal that runs through Paddington up to Regent’s Canal.
Central London
Cheapside · Chinatown (events) · City (events) · Covent Garden (events) · Holborn (events) · Leicester Square (events) · Piccadilly Circus · St. James’s (events) · Soho (events) · Southbank (events) · Trafalgar Square (events) · Victoria (events) · West End (events) · Westminster (events) · Whitehall
North London
Bloomsbury (events) · Camden Town (events) · Clerkenwell · Fitzrovia (events) · Hampstead (events) · Islington (events) · Little Venice · Marylebone (events) · Paddington (events) · St. John’s Wood (events)
South London
Bankside (events) · Battersea (events) · Borough · Greenwich (events) · Lambeth (events) · Southwark (events) · Vauxhall (events) · Waterloo (events)
East London
Canary Wharf (events) · Docklands (events) · Hackney (events) · Whitechapel (events)
West London
Bayswater · Belgravia · Chelsea (events) · Earl’s Court (events) · Hammersmith (events) · Kensington (events) · Knightsbridge (events) · Mayfair (events) · Notting Hill (events) · Pimlico · South Kensington (events)
Historic area names
The origins behind some of London’s famous area names…
Barnet – land cleared by burning
Clerkenwell – the spring where students gather
Dulwich – marshy meadow where dill grows
Ealing – where Gilla’s people live
Greenwich – green dwelling place
Hammersmith – place with a hammer smithy
Knightsbridge – bridge where two knights fought
Lambeth – landing place for lambs
Mayfair – named after the 17th-century May Fair
Neasden – place with a nose-shaped hill
Roehampton – farm where rooks are seen
Soho – hunting ground where So-ho!
was called
Spitalfields – short for Hospital Fields
Vauxhall – Falke’s hall, or Falke’s manor
London’s ethnic communities
Did you know that Londoners speak over 300 different languages? Here are the areas where they live:
Algerians – Finsbury Park
Australians – Earl’s Court
Bangladeshis – Brick Lane
Chinese – Gerrard Street, Chinatown
Ethiopians – North Kensington
Ghanaians – Tottenham
Greek Cypriots – Camberwell
Indians – Neasden
Iranians – Queensway
Irish – Kilburn
Italians – Clerkenwell
Jamaicans – Brixton
Koreans – New Malden
Lebanese – Edgeware Road
Nigerians – New Cross
Pakistanis – Leyton
Poles – Hammersmith
Portuguese – Lambeth
Sikhs – Southall
Somalis – Wapping
Trinidadians – Notting Hill
Turks – Walthamstow