West End

Taking a fairly broad definition of the West End, the area contains the main concentrations of most of London's metropolitan activities apart from financial and many types of legal services, which are concentrated primarily in the City of London. There are major concentrations of the following buildings and activities in the West End:

– Art galleries and museums
– Company headquarters outside the financial services sector (although London's many hedge funds are based mainly in the West End)
– Educational institutions
– Embassies
– Government buildings (mainly around Whitehall)
– Hotels
– Institutes, learned societies and think tanks
– Legal institutions
– Media establishments
– Places of entertainment: theatres, cinemas, nightclubs, music venues, bars and restaurants
– Shops

This category covers all of the main London theatres.

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