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Oxford Street| A main road in central London, England; one of London's principal shopping thoroughfares, containing department stores as Selfridges and John Lewis. It forms the boundary between the City of Westminster and the former borough of St Marylebone. It is crossed halfway along its length by Regent Street. Oxford Street follows the site of a Roman road that ran from London to Silchester. |
| The Pantheon, a fashionable entertainment centre, stood near the eastern end of the street from 1772 until 1867. The eastern extension, known as New Oxford Street, was added in 1847. |
| The street has been known at different times as ‘the way from Uxbridge’, ‘the road to Oxford’, and ‘Tyburn road’ (as it led to the gallows at Tyburn). It was eventually named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, who married the daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, who owned land in St Marylebone. |
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| There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Port- land Place were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups, and along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas lamps as ever there had been. I have heard her say, often and often, that when she was a young lady, and before she was married, she was turning a corner into Oxford Street one day, when she ran against her own hairdresser, who, it seems, was escaping from a bear;--the mere suddenness of the encounter made her faint away directly. Then, still keeping a hundred yards behind, we followed into Oxford Street and so down Regent Street. |