Welcome to London's Hub, a fanlisting dedicated to the famous tourist attraction, the Piccadilly Circus.

Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Pickadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of collars. The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England, but was known as Piccadilly by 1743. Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. The circus lost its circular form in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue".

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Last updated: 07th March 2010
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This fanlisting was opened on the 2nd of January 2006 and is listed under the places, sights category at the thefanlistings.org. Adopted from the lovely Sara.