Soho

Soho is an area of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It is roughly the area bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square to the south, and Charing Cross Road in the east. The area to the west is known as Mayfair.

Major streets in or bordering Soho

• Charing Cross Road is famous for its bookstores.
• Oxford Street is one of London's major shopping streets.
• Regent Street is a major shopping street, named after the Prince Regent, later King George IV
• Shaftesbury Avenue has London's main concentration of theatres along its length.
• Old Compton Street is the core of Soho's gay village.
• Wardour Street was the centre of the old British film industry, and is still the home of much of the current film industry.
• Dean Street where Karl Marx used to live
• Frith Street where John Logie Baird first demonstrated television
• Gerrard Street is the centre of London's Chinatown.
• Berwick Street
• the shopping street of Carnaby Street was an icon of 1960s "Swinging London"