Tiny Denmark Street, in a far-flung corner of the West End off Charing Cross Road, is known as the Tin Pan Alley of England. It was the home of music publishers and the UK music press in the 1950s and ‘60s, and later home to several recording studios. Savile Row is another London street with a place in music history. The rooftop of number 3 was where the Beatles last played live. If it’s your thing, there are plenty more Regent Street shopping options, with the likes of Zara, Superdry, Burberry and Anthropologie all having a big presence there. Nearest Tube: South Kensington or Sloane Square 8. Downing Street The Downing Street sign is all most people get to see of the heart of British Government King’s Road – often referred to as ‘the King’s Road’ – started out as a private road for King Charles II. It was around 170 years later, in 1830, that it finally became a public road.

Nearest Tube: Westminster 9. Fleet Street St Dunstan in the West on Fleet St at Sunset Looking the other way along Fleet Street towards St Paul’s Cathedral St Bride’s Fleet Street, supposedly the church that inspired the design of the tiered wedding cakeMuch of the surrounding area was wiped away by the Crossrail development but Denmark Street is still, just about, hanging in there. Long may it do so.

This London street is lined with several major London landmarks. The most recent of these, the Leadenhall Building, is better known as the Cheese Grater, soaring 225 metres (738 feet) high. Columbia Road is my one of my wife’s favourite places to visit in London on a Sunday. She’s been going there for over 20 years and we have regularly been together. It is famous for its flower market a riot of colour and market store owners calling out their prices.John Newton, evangelical, anti-slavery campaigner and hymnist, was incumbent here from 1780 to 1807. It is estimated that Brown was responsible for over 170 gardens surrounding the finest country houses and estates in Britain. * Adderbury House, Oxfordshire (designs not thought to be implemented [8]) Two volumes of Fleet registers, dated 1726 to 1735, which were brought into the Prerogative Court of Canterbury as evidence are in: