Oxford Street floors, it is the company's largest retail premises. Oxford Street is served by major bus routes and by four tube stations of the London Underground. From Marble Arch eastwards, the stations are: The four stations serve an average of 100 million passengers every year, with Oxford Circus being the busiest. Crossrail, a major project involving an east-west rail route across London, will have two stations serving Oxford Street, at Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road. Each station will be "double-ended", with exits through the existing tube station and also some distance away: to the east of Bond Street, in Hanover
Oxford Street it was not attractive to the middle and upper classes due to the nearby Tyburn gallows and the notorious St Giles rookery, or slum. The gallows were removed in 1783, and by the end of the century, Oxford Street was built up from St Giles Circus to Park Lane, containing a mix of residential houses and entertainment. The site of the Princess's Theatre that opened in 1840 is now occupied by Oxford Walk shopping area. Oxford Circus was designed as part of the development of Regent Street by the architect John Nash in 1810. The four quadrants of the circus