retail Top Retail-related places to visit in London.

Top Retail-related places to visit in London.


It's what girls do best, and London never disappoints. Here are some of top shopping locations and retail highlights, from the oldest to the most celebrated. Spend a penny!

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11. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
12. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
13. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
14. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
15. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
16. The first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
17. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
18. Hamleys Toy Store @ 188 - 196 Regent Street
19. Richard Branson Lived here @ 11 Holland Park, London
20. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
21. Raymond's Revue Bar @ 11 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London
22. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
23. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
24. George Wombwell's Menagerie @ Old Compton Street
25. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
26. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks @ 17 Chancery Lane
27. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
28. The General Trading Stores @ 26 Symons Street, Sloane Square, London
29. A Market steeped in History @ Leather Lane
30. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
31. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
32. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
33. Sothebys @ 3435 New Bond Street
34. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
35. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
36. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
37. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
38. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
39. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
40. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
41. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
42. London's Most Female Street @ Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London
43. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
44. Whiteleys: Shopping was Murder @ Queensway, London
45. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
46. Bloodgate Source @ 268 Lavender Hill, London
47. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
48. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
49. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
50. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
51. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
52. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
53. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
54. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
55. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
56. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
57. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
58. Good Gifts in a Tree @ 53 Exmouth Market
59. The Sights of Soho @ Meard Street, Soho
60. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
61. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
62. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
63. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
64. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
65. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
66. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
67. Grand Seraglio... What? @ Covent Garden
68. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
69. Tigers in Town @ Oxford Street
70. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
71. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
72. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
73. Bethnal Green...a Snatch @ 88 Teesdale Street
74. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
75. The East Ends most famous market @ Petticoat Lane
76. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
77. Is This The New Portobello? @ Lower Marsh
78. The First Shop in the World @ 25 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London
79. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
80. Kristin Baybars Toyshop @ 7 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak
81. A Market going down in History @ Harrow Road & Fernhead Road
82. House of the Mystery Hat @ Goldhawk Road
83. Mr Freedom and Mr Feed em @ 20 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
84. Garrards Jewellers @ 24 Albemarle Street, Mayfair
85. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
86. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
87. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
88. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
89. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
90. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
91. The Kensington Poltergeist @ 20 Bute Street, South Kensington, London
92. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
93. Magic and Comedy @ 145 Wardour Street
94. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
95. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
96. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
97. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
98. Massage...on your time @ Neal's Yard, Covent Garden
99. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
100. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
101. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
102. 80 years and still Dancing @ 94 St Martin's Lane
103. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
104. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
105. The Boxpark @ Bethnal Green Road
106. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
107. Lock & Co...Historical Hats @ 6 St. James's Street
108. Home to the Geisha Kimonos @ 1-7 Davies Mews
109. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
110. Experts in Retro @ 4 Nettlefold Place