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The term was first used in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of [[Charing Cross]].<ref name=mills>Mills, A., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001)</ref> The West End covers parts of the boroughs of [[City of Westminster|Westminster]] and [[London Borough of Camden|Camden]].<ref name=plan>Greater London Authority, ''[http://www.london.gov.uk/archive/mayor/strategies/sds/london_plan/lon_plan_5.pdf The London Plan: The Sub Regions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604095551/http://www.london.gov.uk/archive/mayor/strategies/sds/london_plan/lon_plan_5.pdf# |date=4 June 2011 }}''</ref>
 
While the [[City of London]] is the main business and financial district in London, the West End is the main commercial and entertainment Centrecentre of the city. It is the largest [[central business district]] in the United Kingdom, comparable to [[Midtown Manhattan]] in [[New York City]], the [[8th arrondissement of Paris|8th arrondissement]] in [[Paris]], [[Causeway Bay]] in [[Hong Kong]], or [[Shibuya]] in [[Tokyo]]. It is one of the most expensive locations in the world in which to rent commercial and office space.
 
No trip to the capital is complete without visiting London's west end. /it is the heart of London's cultural scenes.
 
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[[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]]]]
[[File:Aldwych Theatre 2.jpg|thumb|left|Aldwych Theatre in London Theatreland]]
Over time they came to form the Centrecentre of modern London, although each kept its own distinct character and its separate legal identity (for example, the City of London has its own police force and is a distinct [[county]]). The City of London became a Centrecentre for the banking, financial, legal and professional sectors, while Westminster became associated with the leisure, shopping, commerce, and entertainment sectors, the government, and home to [[university|universities]] and [[embassy|embassies]]. The modern West End is closely associated with this area of central London.
 
Lying to the west of the historic [[Londinium|Roman]] and medieval City of London, the West End was long favoredfavoured by the rich elite as a place of residence because it was usually upwind of the smoke drifting from the crowded City.<ref>Robert O. Bucholz and Joseph P. Ward: ''London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012, p. 333</ref> It was close to the royal seat of power at the [[Palace of Westminster]] (now home to [[parliament]]), and is largely contained within the City of Westminster (one of the 32 [[London borough]]s).
 
Following initial development by [[Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans]] in the 1660s, during the late 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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As the West End is a term used colloquially by Londoners and is not an official geographical or municipal definition, its exact constituent parts are up for debate. [[Westminster City Council]]'s 2005 report ''Vision for the West End'' included the following areas in its definition: [[Covent Garden]], [[Soho]], [[Chinatown, London|Chinatown]], [[Leicester Square]], the shopping streets of [[Oxford Street]], [[Regent Street]] and [[Bond Street]], the area encompassing [[Trafalgar Square]], the [[Strand, London|Strand]] and [[Aldwych]], and the district known as [[West End theatre#Theatreland|Theatreland]]. The [[Edgware Road]] to the north-west and the [[Victoria Embankment]] to the south-east were also covered by the document but were treated as "adjacent areas" to the West End.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/CSU/Cabinet%20Member%20Decisions/Economic_Development_and_Transport%202003-08/2005/49%20-%20Vision%20for%20the%20West%20End/West%20End%20Vision%20final%20report%20Oct05.pdf|title=Vision for the West End|date=October 2005|publisher=Westminster City Council|access-date=14 December 2016|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220103651/http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/CSU/Cabinet%20Member%20Decisions/Economic_Development_and_Transport%202003-08/2005/49%20-%20Vision%20for%20the%20West%20End/West%20End%20Vision%20final%20report%20Oct05.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
According to Ed GliderGlinert'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>
 
One of the [[City of Westminster]] [[Wards of the United Kingdom|wards]] is called "[[West End (Westminster ward)|West End]]". This electoral unit includes some of the most prosperous areas of the borough, including [[Soho]], [[Mayfair]] and parts of southern [[Marylebone]].<ref>[http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/2559_West%20End%20Ward_A4_NTonkin.pdf Westminster City Council ward boundary information]</ref> The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 10,575.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13689156&c=West+End&d=14&e=62&g=6340682&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1476554268317&enc=1|title=City of Westminstee ward population 2011|access-date=15 October 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
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