St Giles is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Camden. It is in Central London and part of the West End. The area gets its name from the parish church of St Giles in the Fields. The combined parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (which was carved out of the former) were administered jointly for many centuries, leading to the conflation of the two, with much or all of St Giles usually taken to be a part of Bloomsbury.Points of interest include the church of St Giles in the Fields, Seven Dials, the Phoenix Garden, and St Giles Circus.
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👉 St Giles, London in the context of Tudor London
The Tudor period in London started with the beginning of the reign of Henry VII in 1485 and ended in 1603 with the death of Elizabeth I. During this period, the population of the city grew enormously, from about 50,000 at the end of the 15th century to an estimated 200,000 by 1603, over 13 times that of the next-largest city in England, Norwich. The city also spread over more land, further passing the bounds of its old medieval walls to reach as far west as St. Giles by the end of the period. In 1598, the historian John Stow called it "the fairest, largest, richest and best inhabited city in the world".
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- ⭐ Core Definition: St Giles, London
- 👉 St Giles, London in the context of Tudor London
- St Giles, London in the context of Seven Dials, London
- St Giles, London in the context of Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
- St Giles, London in the context of Shorts Gardens
- St Giles, London in the context of Tottenham Court Road tube station
- St Giles, London in the context of St Giles Circus
St Giles, London in the context of Seven Dials, London
Seven Dials is a road junction and neighbourhood in the St Giles district of the London Borough of Camden, within the greater Covent Garden area in the West End of London. Seven streets of the Seven Dials area converge at the roughly circular central roundabout, at the centre of which is a column bearing six sundials – with the column itself acting as the seventh sundial.
The Seven Dials Trust owns and maintains the column and the sundials and looks after the public realm in collaboration with the local authorities, major land-owners, Historic England and other stakeholders.
St Giles, London in the context of Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965. The borough included most of Holborn (the parts outside the City of London) as well as Bloomsbury and St Giles.
In 1965 the borough amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras and the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead to form the new London Borough of Camden.
St Giles, London in the context of Shorts Gardens
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Shorts Gardens is a street in the St Giles area of Central London. It runs eastwards from Seven Dials to Drury Lane, crossing Neal Street and Endell Street. The Covent Garden district is located just to the south.
St Giles, London in the context of Tottenham Court Road tube station
Tottenham Court Road is an interchange station in the St Giles area of the West End of London for London Underground and Elizabeth line services.
The London Underground station is served by the Central and Northern lines. On the Central line, the station is between Oxford Circus and Holborn stations. On the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, it is between Goodge Street and Leicester Square stations. The Elizabeth line station is between Bond Street and Farringdon stations.
St Giles, London in the context of St Giles Circus
St Giles Circus is a road junction in the St Giles district of the West End of London at the eastern end of Oxford Street, where it connects with New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road, which it is more often referred to owing to the location of Tottenham Court Road Underground station directly under the junction. It is near to Soho, Covent Garden, Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia.