difference between oxford street and oxford circus?

Answer 1

Oxford Circus is the area of London at the busy intersection of Regent Street and Oxford Street. It is served by Oxford Circus tube station, which is directly beneath the junction itself.

Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the City of Westminster. With over 300 shops, it is probably the world's largest shopping street.
It runs for approximately a mile and a half 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. West of Marble Arch, Oxford Street becomes Bayswater Road or the A40 which continues west towards Oxford. Oxford Street intersects with other London roads including Park Lane, New Bond Street and Regent Street.

Answer 2

Oxford Street is a shopping high street in London and Oxford Circus is the intersection point of Oxford Street & Regent Street. Oxford Circus is also the name of the Underground station at at the heart of the shopping district

Answer 3

Oxford Street is a highway stretching from in the west from the junction with Park Lane at Marble Arch to the junction with Tottenham Court Road and Charing Cross Road in the east. Extending east from there to the junction with High Holborn, it is called "New Oxford Street".

Under the UK road classification system, Oxford Street is part of the A40.

Oxford Circus is the name given of the junction of Oxford Street with Regent Street (A4201).

The importance of Oxford Circus as a road junction has diminished over the years, but beneath its surface lies Oxford Circus station, which is the busiest station on the London Underground network.

Answer 4

Oxford circus is the junction with Regents Street where the tube station is located. Oxford Street is the name of the road running through oxford circus.

Answer 5

Oxford Street is a street and Oxford Circus is a roundabout/area name at the junction of Regent Street and Oxford Street

Answer 6

Oxford Circus is the busy road junction intersecting Oxford Street and Regent Street. Oxford Circus has a tube station on the Central & Bakerloo Lines of the London Underground network.

Oxford Street is part of one of London's Roman roads which drives from London towards Oxford. The street has been used as a major shopping area for nearly 2000 years.

Answer 7

Cristi@n has answered this question very well but with respect I can add a few extras. Oxford street is part of an old Roman road that ran from Hampshire to the Sussex coast. The Tyburn Gallows were at the marble Arch end and Oxford Street was originally named, Tyburn road, after a manor house that stood there. Park lane, which runs south from Marble Arch, was called Tyburn Lane. Oxford Circus was designed by Sir Henry Tanner and the South East section was built in 1913. The North East Section was built in 1923. The South West was built in 1925 and the North west in1928. The famous Peter robinson store was established there in 1833. As a London Taxi Driver I could tell you a lot more but I think I have bored you enough.

Answer 8

It's been answered pretty well by everyone except the person claiming you can perform in Oxford Circus. I assume they are thinking of Picadilly Circus which actually has a place for pedestrians to gather and sit in the centre of the junction.

The junction that is Oxford Circus is not a place anybody should find themself in the centre of unless they are in a car or a bus!

Answer 9

Oxford Circus is where Regent Street and Oxford Stret meet and also the name of the tube station. Oxford street is the long stretch of shops.

Answer 10

Oxford street is a street (as the name suggests)

Oxford circus is the crossroads in the middle where it meets Regent Street and where the Oxford Circus tube station is.

for a picture of Oxford Circus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Circus

Answer 11

The circus is basically the intersection between Regents Street, Oxford Street, it has a tube station there and is situated Halfway along the main shoping area you then walk down Oxford street to Tottenham Court Road Tube station and see all the people looking at the shops.