Dear travel lovers

Seven Dials was originally laid out by Thomas Neale, MP in the early 1690s, who cleverly laid out the area in a series of triangles to maximise the number of houses as rentals were charged per foot of frontage and not per square foot of interiors.

The names of the seven streets were chosen with the intention of attracting affluent residents, however some of the names have subsequently been simplified or changed because of duplication with other streets in London. They were originally: Little and Great Earl Street (now Earlham Street), Little and Great White Lyon Street (now Mercer Street), Queen Street (now Shorts Gardens) and Little & Great St. Andrew's Street (now Monmouth Street). Some of the original street signs can still be seen attached to buildings in the area.

Source: https://www.sevendials.co.uk/history

You may want to look at

this map if you want to get from Covent Garden to Seven Dials.

Below I have added some pictures that I have taken this morning.

The Crown and Anchor is located in the lively Seven Dials area of London's Covent Garden.

From here if you go down Earlham Street you will pass by CGCC @ Seven Dials Club.

Then you will get to Seven Dials.
It is a small road junction where seven streets converge. At the centre of the roughly circular space there is a column bearing six sundials, a result of the column being commissioned before a late-stage alteration of the plans from an original six roads to seven.

Below find two photos that I have taken from two different angles.

If you carry on walking down Earlham Street, you will get to Cambridge Circus.

The pic below is from https://www.palacetheatrelondon.org

John Tiffany’s nine-time Olivier Award-winning production Harry Potter and the Cursed Child plays at London’s Palace Theatre.

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