Oxford Street (W1)

Oxford Street in London is one of the busiest shopping streets boasting around 300 shops and running over 1.5 miles in length. As you might expect with that number of shops you will find most of the high street stores here. There are also several large department stores. Getting to Oxford Street is fairly easy as there are lots of buses running along it and also several tube stations nearby including Marble Arch, Bond Steet and Oxford Circus. If you are after department store shopping then Oxford Street is the place to go as most of the major names are here (unless of course you are looking for your higher end stores such as Harvey Nichols and Harrods in ...

I used to work just off Oxford St for 4 years, it was always very busy, but i loved it. Oxford Street is a big part of London. It is in the City of Westminster and with over 300 shops along the very busy street, it is Europe's busiest shopping street. It runs for approx a mile and a half from Mable Arch (North East coner of Hyde Park) through Oxford Circus to St Gile' Circus. Oxford St also intersects with other London roads, the big one's being Park Lane, New Bond St, Regent Street. ** Why I love Oxford St** Okay, working next to Oxford St was never very good for the bank balance because i'm a shopaholic, but you don't have to love ...

Oford Street is THE shopping hotspot in London. All the top high street stores have a flagship here and you're guaranteed their whole ranges with be in their Oxford Street branch. TopShop is probably the busiest and most popular flagship store, with a huge three floor store. Other big names include New Look, Apple and Nike town. In amoung all these big names are souveneir shops, outlet stores and places to eat. It's good if you want high street as everthing high street is here, but don't come here if you want independant stores or something a bit different, here it's all about the big names. It gets busy too, personally I wouldn't go near it on a ...