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Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in the
City of Westminster in London, England.
There are 548 shops in Oxford Street; it is
Europe's busiest shopping street, as well as
the most dense. The street was formerly part
of the London-Oxford road which began at
Newgate, City of London, when it was known
as Oxford Road. Today the road forms part of
the A40, although, like many roads in
central London which are not now intended as
through traffic routes, it is not signposted
with the road number.
It runs for approximately a mile and a half
(two and a half kilometres) from Marble Arch
at the north east corner of Hyde Park,
through Oxford Circus to St Giles' Circus,
at the intersection with Charing Cross Road
and Tottenham Court Road. Eastwards, the
road then becomes New Oxford Street until it
runs into High Holborn. Oxford Street
intersects with other London roads including
Park Lane, New Bond Street and Regent
Street. West of Marble Arch, Oxford Street
becomes Bayswater Road, then Notting Hill
Gate and Holland Park Avenue until it
becomes the Uxbridge Road at Shepherd's Bush
Roundabout. At Uxbridge it becomes the
Oxford Road again, all the way to Oxford,
save for some short sections where it has
been given a local name.
At Oxford Circus is the notable diagonal
crossing, opened in 2009, the only one of
its kind in central London. Oxford Street is
home to major department stores and numerous
brands' flagship stores, as well as hundreds
of smaller shops. It is the major shopping
street in central London, though not the
most expensive or fashionable, and part of a
larger shopping district with Regent Street,
Bond Street and other smaller nearby
streets.
For many British chain stores, their Oxford
Street branch is regarded as their
'flagship' store and used for celebrity
launches and promotions.
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