14 Facts About Bond Street

Bond Street is the only street that links Oxford Street and Piccadilly.

Old Bond Street is at the southern end between Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens.

Part of New Bond Street is numbered B406 but the remainder and all of Old Bond Street is unclassified.

New Bond Street is pedestrianised between Grafton Street and Clifford Street to prevent through traffic and to stop the road being used as a rat run.

New Bond Street was laid out during the second phase of construction 14 years after Bond's syndicate began developing the area.

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Bond Street's insisted people should look for nearer shopping streets, and encouraged people to go to Bond Street.

Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford lived in Bond Street and was unhappy about the presence of the Bond Street Loungers.

Bond Street has maintained its reputation for luxury shopping into the 21st century, and has on occasion been regarded as the best retail location in Europe.

In 2011, Bloomberg News reported that New Bond Street was the most expensive retail street in Europe after the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

The entire length of Bond Street has been part of the Mayfair Conservation Area controlled by Westminster City Council since 1969.

At one time, Bond Street was best known for top-end art dealers and antique shops that were clustered around the London office of Sotheby's auction house, which has been at Nos.

Bond Street has been mentioned in several works of literature, including Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility and Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway.

The plot of the 1948 film Bond Street is based on items purchased from shops in the street.

Bond Street is a square on the British Monopoly board and is the most expensive of the green-coloured set that includes Regent and Oxford Streets.