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[[File:London , Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Shaftesbury Avenue]] from [[Piccadilly Circus]] in 1949]]
[[Medieval]] [[London]] comprised two adjacent cities – the [[City of London]] in the east, and the [[City of Westminster]] in the west.
[[File:Temple-bar-griffin.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Dragon statue on the [[Temple Bar, London|Temple Bar]] monument, which marks the boundary between the City of Westminster and [[City of London]]]]
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Developed in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, it was built as a series of palaces, expensive town houses, fashionable shops and places of entertainment. The areas closest to the City around [[Holborn]], [[Seven Dials, London|Seven Dials]], and [[Covent Garden]] contained poorer communities that were cleared and redeveloped in the 19th century.
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==Boundaries==
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According to Ed Glinert's ''West End Chronicles'' (2006) the districts falling within the West End are [[Mayfair]], [[Soho]], [[Covent Garden]], [[Fitzrovia]] and [[Marylebone]].<ref>E. Gilnert, West End Chronicles (Penguin, 2006)</ref> By this definition, the West End borders [[Temple, London|Temple]], [[Holborn]] and [[Bloomsbury]] to the east, [[Regent's Park]] to the north, [[Paddington]], [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] and [[Knightsbridge]] to the west, and [[Victoria, London|Victoria]] and [[Westminster]] to the south. Other definitions include [[Bloomsbury]] within the West End.<ref>Atkins, Peter J. "How the West End was won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London." Journal of Historical Geography 19.3 (1993): 265.</ref><ref>How the West End was won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London. Atkins, P J. Journal of Historical Geography; London Vol. 19, Iss. 3, (Jul 1, 1993): 265.</ref>
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==Activities==
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*[[Tottenham Court Road]]
*[[Wardour Street]]
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==Notable squares and circuses==
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*[[Tottenham Court Road tube station|Tottenham Court Road]]
*[[Warren Street tube station|Warren Street]]
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==References==
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{{Sub-regions of London}}
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