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are Oxford Street and Bayswater Road, the boroughs adjoining being
Paddington and St. Marylebone; the Thames on the south; on the
east, Chancery Lane, Charing Cross Road and the Temple separate the
City of London, and the Borough of Holborn ; while on the west, Queen's
Gate and the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens bound the Boroughs of
Kensington and Chelsea.
For the purpose of sanitary inspection and inspection of housing
under the Inspection of District (Housing) Regulations, the City is
divided into 9 areas. These areas may be generally and briefly designated
as follows (refer to map):—
(1) The Strand area, which includes Covent Garden, extends eastwards
beyond the Law Courts and across one part of Chancery Lane. On
the south, its boundary is the river as far as the Temple. In the north,
the south side of Lincoln's Inn Fields is within it, while other streets
near the margin are Drury Lane and Long Acre, and thence back to
Charing Cross Road.
(2) St. James's and part of Soho, on the north bounded by Oxford
Street, on the west Wardour Street and including the south side of
Piccadilly, Jermyn Street, Carlton House Terrace, &c., to Charing Cross.
(3) Regent Street area, bounded by Oxford Street, Old Bond Street,
north side Piccadilly, returning to Wardour Street as eastern boundary.
(4) Mayfair. West of area No. 3, bounded on the north by Oxford
Street, on the west by Park Lane, and on the south by Piccadilly.
(5) Knightsbridge area is that to the west of St. George's Hospital,
including Belgrave Square, part of Eaton and Lowndes Squares. It is
bounded on the west by the Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. Part
of this area extends as far west as the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens
and Queen's Gate.
(6) Victoria Street and Buckingham Palace Road area, extending from
the Horse Guards along Whitehall, the north side of Victoria Street and
Buckingham Palace Road, as far as Chelsea Bridge. It ends not far
from Sloane Square station, with Eaton Square and St. James's Park
as the northwestern boundary.
(7) St. John's, &c., extending from Horse Guards Avenue along the
river bank to Vauxhall Bridge with Vauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria
Street as its other boundaries.
(8) and (9) Pimlico area, divided into two, on the east, bounded by
Vauxhall Bridge Road to Victoria Station, the western boundary being
the railway and the southern the river.