Areas of London
Featured articles
MaryleboneMarylebone is home to Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, and Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street.
Central London
Cheapside (events) · Chinatown (events) · City (events) · Covent Garden (events) · St. James’s (events) · Soho (events) · Westminster (events) · Whitehall (events)
North London
Bloomsbury (events) · Camden Town (events) · Clerkenwell (events) · Fitzrovia (events) · Little Venice (events) · Marylebone (events) · Paddington (events)
South London
Bankside (events) · Borough (events) · Greenwich (events) · Lambeth (events) · Southwark (events)
East London
Canary Wharf (events) · Docklands (events) · Whitechapel (events)
West London
Bayswater (events) · Belgravia (events) · Chelsea (events) · Kensington (events) · Knightsbridge (events) · Mayfair (events) · Notting Hill (events) · Pimlico (events)
Talk about London’s different districts in our chat forum, and find your way around the different areas with our street map of London
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 you can visit:
Algerians – Finsbury Park
Australians – Earl’s Court
Bangladeshis – Brick Lane
Chinese – Gerrard Street, Soho
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
