It includes hotels, restaurants, the Indian and Australian High Commissions and the London School of Economics.

It is recorded in the early 12th century as parochia Sancti Clementis ecclesie Dacorum or 'the parish of St Clement's church of the Danes'.

[5] The parish was grouped into the Strand District in 1855 when it came within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

The western detached part was very small; it lay between an arm of St Martin in the Fields by the river and the few-acres Precinct of the Savoy of similar size to St Mary le Strand also by the river.

[7] The boundaries are the same in the Church of England as the final form of the civil parish save that St Mary le Strand is combined; it has a third place of worship, King's College Chapel, London.