Cranbourn Street

It connects Leicester Square to Long Acre via Charing Cross Road.

The street was constructed in the 1670s, and named after the Earl of Salisbury's country estate of Cranborne, Dorset.

[1] It originally connected Leicester Square to Castle Street, and was largely complete by 1681–2.

[3] Cranbourn Passage, an alley connecting the street northwards to Little Newport Street, was demolished in the 1880s in order to construct Charing Cross Road.

[2] The London Hippodrome was sited on Cranbourn Street; in 1957 it was converted into the Talk of the Town, a combined theatre and restaurant.