The term “Piccadilly” comes from a 17th-century tailor named Robert Baker, who sold a type of frilly collar called a “piccadill.” The “circus” part of the name comes from the Latin word for “circle,” which refers to the circular intersection at the heart of the landmark.
The line originated in the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), which was shortened to Piccadilly for convenience. As well as being the best-known location in the original company name, it is also the name of the main road it runs under between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner.
The place name derives from a piccadill, an ornate lace collar fashionable in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Where you see the name, you can assume that either that place was where lace-makers plied their trade, or that town fathers wanted to evoke the booming prosperity of London.
Today, Piccadilly is regarded as one of London's principal shopping streets, hosting several famous shops. The Ritz Hotel, Park Lane Hotel, Athenaeum Hotel and Intercontinental Hotel are located on the street, along with other luxury hotels and offices.
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Piccadilly (/ˌpɪkəˈdɪli/) is a road in the City of Westminster, London, England, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east.
Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Piccadilly 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 present writer therefore concludes that Piccadilly Hall was a derisive nickname bestowed upon the house built by Robert Baker, a tailor who had made much of his fortune by the sale of piccadillies; and that the situation of the house 'then the outmost or skirt house of the Suburbs that way', may well have given ...
The name Manchester originates from the Latin name Mamucium or its variant Mancunio. These names are generally thought to represent a Latinisation of an original Brittonic name. The generally accepted etymology of this name is that it comes from Brittonic *mamm- ("breast", in reference to a "breast-like hill").
Piccadilly Circus, busy London intersection and popular meeting place. Lying between the neighbourhoods of St. James (south) and Soho (north) in the borough of Westminster, it serves as the nexus of Coventry Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Regent Street, and Piccadilly.
Piccadilly Circus was used as the filming location in the film when Ron, Hermione, and Harry narrowly avoided being hit by a London bus. Iconic and world famous, Piccadilly Circus is a hugely busy location but definitely a must on any tour of Harry Potter in London.
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The original name for the street now known worldwide as Piccadilly was the far less fun Portugal Street, named after Charles II's wife Catherine of Braganza's home nation. But by the middle of the 18th century it had assumed its current moniker.
1960: 12 September, Manchester London Road changes its name to Manchester Piccadilly following major redevelopment of the concourse and office accommodation by British Railways in the late 1950s. 1992: Manchester Metrolink is opened with platforms in the undercroft of Manchester Piccadilly.
The Piccadilly line opened as the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway on 15 December 1906 and it ran between Finsbury Park and Hammersmith. The line remained much the same until the 1930s when it expanded rapidly, incorporating stations which are now regarded as classic examples of period architecture.
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Admire the Piccadilly statue of Eros, a beautiful winged archer poised with his bow, located in Piccadilly Circus. Erected at the end of the 19th century to commemorate Lord Shaftesbury's philanthropic work, the original name of the monument is Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain.
